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(of Arca pectunculoides Scacchi, 1835) Scacchi A. 1835. Notizie intorno alle conchiglie ed a' zoofiti fossili che si trovano nelle vicinanze di Gravina in Puglia. Annali Civili del Regno delle Due Sicilie 6: 75-84; 7: 5-18, 2 pl. [the date of vol. 6 often stated as 1834, but both issues stated as published later than 8th October 1835 by Cretella et al., 2005], available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=-B9EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
page(s): 82; pl. 1 fig. 12 a,b [details]

Type data

Note Gravina, province of Bari, Italy...

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Type locality Gravina, province of Bari, Italy (Plio-Pleistocene fossil) [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from northern Norway to Senegal, also Canary and Cape Verde Islands; Mediterranean; Western Atlantic from...

Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from northern Norway to Senegal, also Canary and Cape Verde Islands; Mediterranean; Western Atlantic from Greenland to Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gorringe, Josephine, Ampère and Seine seamounts, common in 165-630 m; Great Meteor, Hyères, Irving and Atlantis seamounts, uncommon in 420-845 m; Plato seamount, common in 580-710 m. [details]

Nomenclature Placed on the Official List of specific names in Zoology by Opinion 1887 of ICZN (1998)

Nomenclature Placed on the Official List of specific names in Zoology by Opinion 1887 of ICZN (1998) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138799 on 2025-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Nomenclature

original description (of Arca pectunculoides Scacchi, 1835) Scacchi A. 1835. Notizie intorno alle conchiglie ed a' zoofiti fossili che si trovano nelle vicinanze di Gravina in Puglia. Annali Civili del Regno delle Due Sicilie 6: 75-84; 7: 5-18, 2 pl. [the date of vol. 6 often stated as 1834, but both issues stated as published later than 8th October 1835 by Cretella et al., 2005], available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=-B9EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
page(s): 82; pl. 1 fig. 12 a,b [details]

original description (of Arca koreni Danielssen, 1859) Danielssen, D. C. (1859). Beretning om en zoologisk Reise foretagen i Sommeren 1857. Nyt magazin for naturvidenskaberne, Cristiania. 11 : 1-58 (48-49)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54065988 [details]

original description (of Arca pectunculoides var. grandis Leche, 1878) Leche, W. (1878). Öfversigt öfver de af svenska expeditionerna till Novaja Semlja och Jenissej 1875 och 1876 insamlade. Hafsmollusker. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, ny följd. 16(2): 1-86, pls. 1, 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33811522
page(s): 30, pl. 1 fig. 9 [details]

original description (of Arca pectunculoides var. septentrionalis G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 43, pl. 4, fig. 2a-c [details]

original description (of Bathyarca pectunculoides pellucida P. G. Oliver & J. A. Allen, 1980) Oliver, G. & Allen, J. A. (1980). The functional and adaptive morphology of the deep-sea species of the Arcacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Atlantic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291(1045): 45-76., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1980.0127
page(s): 54-55 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Arca inaequalis Dall, 1927) Dall, W. H. (1927). Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross", in 1885 and 1886. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 70(2667): 1-134., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15670453
page(s): 12 [details]

original description (of Arca (Bathyarca) verrilli E. Lamy, 1907) Lamy, E. (1907). Révision des Arca vivants du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie. 55(1): 1-111, pl. 1 [15 June 1907]; 55(3): 199-307, pl. 3 [25 September 1907]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292971
page(s): 282 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 126-127 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. Invertebrate Zoology. 11 (1): 43–82 [in English]. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Morton B. (1982). Functional morphology of Bathyarca pectunculoides (Bivalvia: Arcacea) from a deep Norwegian fjord with a discusssion of the mantle margin in the Arcoida.. Sarsia 67: 269-282 [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

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Introduced: alien

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Biology Type of larval development: not documentes [inferred from egg size and prodissoconch morphology to be to be short planktonic, non-planktotrophic] [details]

Diagnosis Shell very small, up to 3 mm, with a straight cardinal line running over the entire length; ventral margin rounded, slightly sinuous and more salient in the back. Cardinal line with very few teeth, generally three to each side of the umbo. Exterior with very fine radial ribs and commarginal grooves. Colour white, fresh or live specimens yellowish with two stained areas before and after the umbo. [details]

Nomenclature Placed on the Official List of specific names in Zoology by Opinion 1887 of ICZN (1998) [details]

Type locality Gravina, province of Bari, Italy (Plio-Pleistocene fossil) [details]

Unreviewed

Dimensions reaches 5 mm in size [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat bathyal 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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