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Anodontia edentula (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 605402

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Lucinoida (Order) > Lucinoidea (Superfamily) > Lucinidae (Family) > Anodontia (Genus)
Status nomen dubium
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Anodontia Link, 1807
Synonymised
taxa
  Anodontia (Anodontia) edentula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lucina edentula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Venus edentula Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 173 [details]


additional source: 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): 214 [details]


basis of record (from synonym): Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Taylor J.D. & Glover E.A. (2005). Cryptic diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves: a systematic revision of worldwide Anodontia (Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 3(3): 281-338 [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English toothless platter shell (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:605402
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2012-07-05 23:43:01Z  created  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-07-14 19:34:51Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2013-02-01 20:32:46Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Anodontia edentula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605402 on 2013-06-19
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