CaRMS taxon details
Macoma calcarea (Gmelin, 1791) AphiaID: 141580
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Macoma Leach, 1819 |
| 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: 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: 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: 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: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Danish |
stor østersømusling |
[details] |
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Dutch |
ovaal nonnetje |
[details] |
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English |
chalky macoma |
[details] |
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German |
Kalk-Plattmuschel |
[details] |
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Swedish |
stor östersjömussla |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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| Feedingtypes | |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (57 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (120 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
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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| Notes | |
Dimensions: reaches 3.5 to 5 cm in size [details]
Distribution: Greenland to Long Island, New York; Bering Sea to Washington [details]
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]
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| Images | |
Macoma calcarea
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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Macoma calcarea
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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Macoma calcarea
added on 2010-03-18 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Macoma calcarea
added on 2010-03-18 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Macoma calcarea
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ( )
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141580 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Macoma calcarea (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141580 on 2013-05-19 |
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