WoRMS taxon details
Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn, 1817)
AphiaID: 156859
AphiaID: 156859
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Geukensia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Geukensia Van de Poel, 1959 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brachidontes demissus (Dillwyn, 1817) Brachydontes clava Mörch, 1853 Modiola plicatula Lamarck, 1819 Modiola semicostata Conrad, 1837 Modiolus demissus (Dillwyn, 1817) Mytilus demissa Dillwyn, 1817 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (87 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (104 nucleotides; 92 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral 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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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156859 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Geukensia demissa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156859 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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