WoRMS taxon details
Meretrix casta (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 507778
AphiaID: 507778
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Meretrix (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Meretrix Lamarck, 1799 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corbicula satparaënsis Preston, 1914 Cytherea crassa Gray, 1825 Cytherea impudica Lamarck, 1818 Cytherea ovum Hanley, 1845 Meretrix exilis Römer, 1865 Venus casta Gmelin, 1791 Venus creplini Dunker, 1852 | ||||||||||
| 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.
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| Host of |
Conchyliurus bhimilensis Devi, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Conchyliurus bombasticus Reddiah, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Conchyliurus fragilis Reddiah, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ostrincola portonoviensis Reddiah, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507778 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Meretrix casta (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507778 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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