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Caryocorbula amethystina Olsson, 1961 
AphiaID: 538632

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Myoidea (Superfamily) > Corbulidae (Family) > Caryocorbula (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Caryocorbula Gardner, 1926
Synonymised
taxa
  Corbula amethystina (Olsson, 1961)
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]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

from synonym: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 165 [details] [view taxon]


Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Corbula amethystina
[image from synonym]
Corbula amethystina
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:538632
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-11-10 15:53:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-11-10 16:07:33Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2013-01-12 21:06:09Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Caryocorbula amethystina Olsson, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=538632 on 2013-05-26
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