WoRMS taxon details
Comus platyaulax (Tomlin, 1924)
AphiaID: 507528
AphiaID: 507528
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Comus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Comus Cox, 1930 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Tivela platyaulax (Tomlin, 1924) Transennella platyaulax (Tomlin, 1924) Venus latilirata G. B. Sowerby III, 1897 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research.
Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
[details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 192 [details] from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 240 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507528 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Comus platyaulax (Tomlin, 1924). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507528 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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