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CaRMS taxon detailsMya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
140431 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140431)
accepted
Species
marine
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors 
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [details] Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan
Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details] Distribution Circumboreal
Distribution Circumboreal [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2026-01-11
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2026-01-11
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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors context source (BeRMS 2020) Marine Biology Section, Ugent. Belgium. INRAM. Benthic fauna monitoring- SSD - Belgian Science Policy., available online at http://www.vliz.be/projects/inram/imers.php. [details] additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Amaro T., Duineveld G. & Tyler P. 2005. (2005). Does <i>Mya truncata</i> reproduce at its southern distribution limit? Preliminary information. <em>Journal of Shellfish Research.</em> 24(1): 25–28,. [details] Available for editors additional source Zhang J.L., Yurchenko O.V., Lutaenko K.A., Kalachev A.V., Nekhaev I.O., Aguilar R., Zhan Z.F. & Ogburn M.B. (2018). A tale of two soft-shell clams: an integrative taxonomic analysis confirms <i>Mya japonica</i> as a valid species distinct from <i>Mya arenaria</i> (Bivalvia: Myidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 184(3): 605-622., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx107 [details] Available for editors  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [details]Unreviewed
Dimensions reaches 2.5 to 7.5 cm in size [details]Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details] Distribution Circumboreal [details] Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Importance edible [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]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (750 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To Dyntaxa To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mya truncata) To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Malacopics (Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Hoek van Holland, collected ... To Malacopics (Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 North Sea, Outer Silver Pit, collected alive, collected... To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To The Arctic Traits Database (12 traits) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033377) To ITIS Unreviewed
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