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Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 507876

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Polititapes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900
Synonymised
taxa		  Tapes alba Deshayes, 1853
 Tapes carpenteri Römer, 1861
 Tapes similis Deshayes, 1853
 Venerupis dura (Gmelin, 1791)
 Venerupis rufiscescens Fischer-Piette & Métivier, 1971
 Venus durus Gmelin, 1791
 Venus rariflamma Lamarck, 1818
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]

from synonym: Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Angola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Island of Banié (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Polititapes durus
Polititapes durus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507876
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507876 on 2013-05-21
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