WoRMS taxon details
Lunarca Gray, 1842
AphiaID: 415584
AphiaID: 415584
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Arca costata Gray, 1857 (type by subsequent monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Arcidae Lamarck, 1809 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Argina Gray, 1842 (Invalid: junior homonym of Argina Hübner, 1816 [Lepidoptera]; Arginarca is a replacement name) Arginarca McLean, 1951 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Lunarca brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Species Lunarca ovalis (Bruguière, 1789) | ||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415584 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Lunarca Gray, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415584 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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