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Cuspidaria glacialis (Sars G. O., 1878) 
AphiaID: 139445

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Cuspidarioidea (Superfamily) > Cuspidariidae (Family) > Cuspidaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cuspidaria Nardo, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Cuspidaria subglacialis Dall, 1913
Neaera glacialis Sars, 1878
Neaera obesa Posselt, 1895
Sources  original description: Sars, G.O. (1878). Report of the Norwegian deep-sea expedition of 1878. Report of Commission of Fish and Fisheries 1878: 257-281.
page(s): 88 [details]


basis of record: Poutiers, J.M. & F.R. Bernard. 1995. Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. In : P. BOUCHET (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 14. Mémoires Muséum national Histoire naturelle, 167 : 107-187. [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]

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]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

from synonym: Sars, G.O. (1878). Biltrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca regionis arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende. Brogger, Christiana. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII.
page(s): 88 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: DALL, W.H. 1913 Diagnoses of new shells from the Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45 (2002) : 587-597.
page(s): 593 [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English glacial cuspidaria  [details]
English glacial dipperclam  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: reaches 2.5 to 3.5 cm in size [details]

Distribution: Nova Scotia and Northern Europe; Alaska and Arctic Seas [details]

Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Importance: common dredged species [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]
Images 
Cuspidaria glacialis
Cuspidaria glacialis
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Cuspidaria glacialis (pair)
Cuspidaria glacialis (pair)
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Cuspidaria glacialis
Cuspidaria glacialis
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139445
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Cuspidaria glacialis (Sars G. O., 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139445 on 2013-05-25
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