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Mercenaria druidi Ward, 1992 †
1818659 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1818659)
accepted
Species
Venus (Mercenaria) berryi J. A. Gardner, 1943 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Venus berrii...)
junior homonym of Venus berrii [sic] Wood, 1828, nec Venus berryi Sowerby, 1853; Mercenaria druidi Ward, 1992 is a replacement name
- Subspecies Mercenaria druidi druidi Ward, 1992 †
- Subspecies Mercenaria druidi gardnerae Petuch & Drolshagen, 2010 †
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Ward, L. W. (1992). Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir.</em> 2: 1-147, 36 figs., 26 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63498715
page(s): 107, pl. 3, fig. 8, pl. 6, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 107, pl. 3, fig. 8, pl. 6, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Virginia
type locality contained in Virginia [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mercenaria druidi Ward, 1992 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1818659 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Ward, L. W. (1992). Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir.</em> 2: 1-147, 36 figs., 26 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63498715
page(s): 107, pl. 3, fig. 8, pl. 6, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Venus (Mercenaria) berryi J. A. Gardner, 1943 †) Gardner, J. A. (1943). Mollusca from the Miocene and lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. With a summary of the stratigraphy by W. C. Mansfield. <em>United States Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 199-A: i-iv, 1-178, 1-23 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp199A
page(s): 133-134, pl. 21, figs 1-6 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 107, pl. 3, fig. 8, pl. 6, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Venus (Mercenaria) berryi J. A. Gardner, 1943 †) Gardner, J. A. (1943). Mollusca from the Miocene and lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. With a summary of the stratigraphy by W. C. Mansfield. <em>United States Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 199-A: i-iv, 1-178, 1-23 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp199A
page(s): 133-134, pl. 21, figs 1-6 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
