BeRMS taxon details
Ensis directus (Conrad, 1843)
AphiaID: 140732
AphiaID: 140732
| Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Heterodonta > Euheterodonta > [unassigned] Euheterodonta > Solenoidea > Pharidae > Ensis |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ensis Schumacher, 1817 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] additional source: Vierna J., Jensen K.T., González-Tizón A.M. & Martínez-Lage A. (2012) Population genetic analysis of Ensis directus unveils high genetic variation in the introduced range and reveals a new species from the NW Atlantic. Marine Biology 159(10): 2209–2227. [Published online 31 July 2012; Code-compliant version published in October 2012], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-2006-6 [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] Bay of the Somme [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Boulogne-sur-Mer [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] De Haan [details] De Panne [details] Dunkerque [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Myocheres major (Williams, 1907) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Ensis americanus To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (117 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (596 nucleotides; 183 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140732 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: von Cosel, R.; Gofas, S. (2013). Ensis directus (Conrad, 1843). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140732 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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