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Mercenaria cancellata Gabb, 1860 †

540931 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:540931)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Bivalvia
  5. Autobranchia
  6. Heteroconchia
  7. Euheterodonta
  8. Imparidentia
  9. Venerida
  10. Veneroidea
  11. Veneridae
  12. Venerinae
  13. Mercenaria
  14. Mercenaria cancellata †
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Gabb, W. M. (1860). Descriptions of new species of American Tertiary and Cretaceous fossils. <em>Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, Second Series.</em> 4: 375-404, pls. 67-69., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36862263
page(s): 376 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mercenaria cancellata Gabb, 1860 †. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=540931 on 2026-07-23
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Mercenaria cancellata Gabb, 1860 †. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=540931 on 2026-07-23
Date
action
by
2010-11-10 15:53:17Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2010-11-10 16:07:33Z
checked
Huber, Markus
2024-09-10 11:37:34Z
changed
Köhler, Frank

original description Gabb, W. M. (1860). Descriptions of new species of American Tertiary and Cretaceous fossils. <em>Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, Second Series.</em> 4: 375-404, pls. 67-69., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36862263
page(s): 376 [details] 

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Groves, L. T.; Squires, R. L. (2018). Annotated Catalog of the Fossil Invertebrates Described by, and Named for, William More Gabb (1839–1878). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4534(1): 1-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4534.1.1
page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
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