| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Donax Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Source | |
additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Dutch |
zaagje |
[details] |
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English |
banded wedge-shell |
[details] |
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French |
flion |
[details] |
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French |
olive de mer |
[details] |
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German |
gebänderte Dreiecksmuschel |
[details] |
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German |
gebänderte Sägemuschel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Links | | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (134 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Slim, somewhat triangular and elongated shell with the top directed to the back. Up to 40 mm long
and 16 mm high. The back is somewhat acuminate and truncate, the front is more rounded. The
sculpture consists of fine grooves radiating from the top that are crossed by growth lines. The lower
edge is very convex and coarsely serrated at the inside, hence the Dutch name “zaagje” (literally: little saw). Living specimens are coloured yellow or light purple. The inside of the shell is often yellow ochre or purple. They live directly under the sea floor. In case of disturbance they are able to burrow exceptionally fast. [details]
Distribution: The distribution area of Donax vittatus is limited to the coastal area of the Belgian part of the North Sea. During both periods the species seems to prefer the western coastal zone. The detailed distribution of Donax vittatus reveals itself best in the 1994-2001 period, when numerous samples were collected in the coastal zone. During this period the species was commonly present from De Panne to Wenduine whereas it was almost absent further to the east. In general, the density remained rather low: up to 40 ind./m2 in the 1976-1986 period and up to 300 ind./m2 in the 1994-2001 period. [details]
Habitat: Donax vittatus tends to prefer fine-grained sediments (median grain size 50-250 µm). However, the chance of finding this species in these sediments is not higher than 20%. The species is absent in sediments with a median grain size exceeding 400 µm. Donax vittatus is found in sediments with a mud content ranging from 0 to 80% without a clear preference for a certain mud content. [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Donax vittatus(Da Costa, 1778)
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Decleer, M.
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Donax vittatus (da Costa, 1778)
added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert
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Donax vittatus (da Costa, 1778)
added on 2006-09-07 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
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Zaagje
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
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Zaagje
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
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Donax vittatus (da Costa, 1778)
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
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Donax vittatus
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ( )
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139604 |
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| | | Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Donax vittatus (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139604 on 2013-06-20 |
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