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Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 140431

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Heterodonta > Euheterodonta > Myoida > Myoidea > Myidae > Mya
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Mya Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Mya Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch afgeknotte gaper  [details]
Dutch afgeknotte strandgaper  [details]
English blunt gaper  [details]
English truncate softshell  [details]
English truncate softshell clam  [details]
German abgestutzte Klaffmuschel  [details]
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (702 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Circumboreal [details]
Images 
Picture of Mya truncata
Picture of Mya truncata
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Desmet, G.
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Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
added on 2006-09-07 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
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Mya truncata
Mya truncata
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, Maria
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Mya truncata
Mya truncata
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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Mya truncata
Mya truncata
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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afgeknotte (strand)gaper Mya truncata
afgeknotte (strand)gaper Mya truncata
added on 2009-07-30 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
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Mya truncata afgeknotte (strand)gaper
Mya truncata afgeknotte (strand)gaper
added on 2009-07-30 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
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Mya truncata (fresh)
Mya truncata (fresh)
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Mya truncata (above) and Panomya norvegica (below)
Mya truncata (above) and Panomya norvegica (below)
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Panomya norvegica (above) and Mya truncata (below)
Panomya norvegica (above) and Mya truncata (below)
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Eben (1884, plaat 7)
Eben (1884, plaat 7)
added on 2012-07-25 - author: Anoniem in Eben (1884)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Mya truncata
Mya truncata
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140431
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2013-05-22