| Status | |  unaccepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818) |
| Rank | | Species |
| Typetaxon of | |
Petricolaria Stoliczka, 1870
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| Parent | | Petricola Lamarck, 1801 |
| Sources | |
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]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Dutch |
Amerikaanse boormossel |
[details] |
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English |
American piddock |
[details] |
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English |
false angelwing |
[details] |
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German |
Amerikanische Bohrmuschel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish |
| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Conchyliurus cardii tapetis Bocquet & Stock, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Petricola pholadiformis
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (233 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: A thin, fragile elongated shell up to 65 mm long. The outside of the shell is covered with ribs radiating from the top that are crossed by the growth lines. The ribs in the front part under the top bear clear squamous projections used to ‘bore’ through the substrate. The colour is lime white or yellowish white; older specimens are coloured brownish yellow. Bores in hard clay, limestone and solid mud as well as in pieces of peat and wood. [details]
Distribution: In both periods Petricola pholadiformis could only be found in the coastal zone, with a clear preference for the eastern coastal zone. Although the distribution of the species was limited, high densities were observed locally: up to 500 ind./m2 in the 1976-1986 period and up to 1,000 ind./m2 in the 1994-2001 period. [details]
Habitat: Petricola pholadiformis is only found in fine sediments with a median grain size < 250 µm. In sediments with a median grain size of 100-150 µm a relative occurrence of 50% is even noted. The mud content seems less decisive for the habitat preference; however, the species does not occur in sediments without mud and the relative occurrence increases as the mud content of the sediment increases. [details]
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| Images | | 
Petricola pholadiformis Lamarck, 1818
added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Amerikaanse boormossel
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140730 |
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| | | Citation: Huber, M.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2013). Petricola pholadiformis Lamarck, 1818. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140730 on 2013-05-24 |
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