Species Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)

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• Mya arctica Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [1113].
• Saxicava purpurascens Sowerby, G.B. 1834. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85-94 [88].
• Saxicava solida Sowerby, G.B. 1834. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85-94 [88].
• Saxicava tenuis Sowerby, G.B. 1834. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85-94 [88].
• Hiatella australis angasi Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180" (=190) [643] [as Hiatella australis var. angasi Angas, 1865].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, oyster banks, Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767).
• Hiatella solida (Sowerby, 1834). —
  Olsson, A.A. 1961. Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific. Panamic - Pacific Pelecypoda: Paleont. Res. Inst. New York : Ithaca 574 pp., 86 pls. [425-426; Plate 77, figures 6, 6a.]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circum Antarctcia

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

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, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (on CD: line 9182)

Lemaitre, R., Harasewych, M.G. & Hammock, J. (eds) 2009. ANTIZ v 1.07: A Database of Antarctic and Subantarctic Marine Invertebrates. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. World Wide Web electronic publication. URL http://invertebrates.si.edu/ANTIZ [accessed 3/08/2011]

Marshall, B., Gofas, S., & Vandepitte, L. 2015. Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140103 (Accessed on 2015-01-22)

RAMS 2010. Hiatella solida (Sowerby, 1834). De Broyer, C., Clarke, A., Koubbi, P., Pakhomov, E., Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. & Danis, B. (eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). 2011-08-02. http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197191

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