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Macoma hesperus Dall, 1908 
AphiaID: 575376

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Tellinidae (Family) > Macoma (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Macoma Leach, 1819
Synonymised
taxa
  Macoma (Psammacoma) hesperus Dall, 1908
Macoma panamensis spectri Hertlein & Strong, 1949
Macoma siliqua spectri Hertlein & Strong, 1949
Sources  basis of record: Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to PerĂº, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.  [details]

redescription (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:575376
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2011-07-04 09:51:55Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2012-07-30 09:02:25Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Macoma hesperus Dall, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575376 on 2013-06-19
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