BeRMS taxon details
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 141579
AphiaID: 141579
| Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Heterodonta > Euheterodonta > Veneroida > Tellinoidea > Tellinidae > Macoma |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Macoma Leach, 1819 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 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: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] East Gulf of Finland [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Goote Bank [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) [details] Navy Island [details] North East Baltic Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oak Point [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Andrews [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Sam Orr Pond [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Westerschelde [details] White Sea [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder [details]
suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Leptinogaster histrio (Pelseneer, 1929) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Herrmannella rostrata Canu, 1891 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer, 1902 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (58 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (147 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (125 nucleotides; 100 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141579 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Macoma balthica (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=141579 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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