| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Abra Lamarck, 1818 |
| 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 |
witte dunschaal |
[details] |
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English |
white furrow shell |
[details] |
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German |
kleine Pfeffermuschel |
[details] |
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German |
weiße Pfeffermuschel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Feedingtypes | |
deposit feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Leptinogaster histrio (Pelseneer, 1929) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 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: Small (up to 25mm long), thin and fragile shell. Oval shape, rather flat with thin concentric growth
lines. The shells are shiny white and somehow transparent. Abra alba lives rather deep in the bottom and feeds on sediment by means of long, individually separated stretchable siphons. [details]
Distribution: During both periods Abra alba is a common species in the near-coastal zone. The species is only rarely found further than 30 km off the coast. Abra alba locally reaches very high densities: up to about 14,000 ind./m2 in the 1976-1986 period and appr. 5,000 ind./m2 in the 1994-2001 period. The highest densities are observed near the western coastal zone in both periods. [details]
Habitat: Abra alba can be found in all sediment types. However, the species does tend to prefer (> 50% of the samples) fine-grained sediments with a median grain size between 50 and 250 µm and a mud content of 10-50%. In coarse sediments (median grain size > 300 µm) with a low mud content (< 10%) the A. alba is rather rare. [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Abra alba
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Witte dunschaal
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Abra alba
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2012-08-16 10:37:09 |
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Witte dunschaal
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Eben (1884, plaat 7)
added on 2012-07-25 - author: Anoniem in Eben (1884)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Abra alba
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Abra alba (Wood W., 1802)
Spcimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 22.02.2010), actual size 10.3 mm.
added on 2013-02-05 - author: Antit, Mouna
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-02-05 13:38:33 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141433 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Abra alba (W. Wood, 1802). Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141433 on 2013-05-19 |
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