WoRMS taxon details
Astarte elliptica (Brown, 1827)
AphiaID: 138821
AphiaID: 138821
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditoida (Order) > Crassatelloidea (Superfamily) > Astartidae (Family) > Astarte (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Astarte J. de C. Sowerby, 1816 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astarte elonga Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte garensis J. Smith, 1839 Astarte intermedia G. B. Sowerby II, 1854 Crassina elliptica T. Brown, 1827 Elliptica alaskensis (Dall, 1903) (synonym) Elliptica elliptica (Brown, 1827) Tridonta elliptica (Brown, 1827) (subsequent name/combination) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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.
[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: 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: 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: 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] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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 page(s): 189 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Høpner Petersen G. (2001). Studies on some Arctic and baltic Astarte species (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience 52: 1-71 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Beaufort Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] 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 Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] 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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (136 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe Waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower North Shore; Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138821 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Astarte elliptica (Brown, 1827). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138821 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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