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Mactra maculata Gmelin, 1791
505685 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505685)
accepted
Species
Mactra nebulosa Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827 · unaccepted
Mactra reevei Reeve, 1854 · unaccepted
Mactra setosa Quoy & Quimard, 1835 · unaccepted
Mactra squalida Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted
marine
Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] 
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original description
Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Mactra nebulosa Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827) Bory de St.-Vincent [J.B.G.M.]. (1827). <i>Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers</i>. Tome 1: part 29, pp. 83-84, 133-180 [Livraison 98, 27 September 1827]. Paris: Vve Agasse [Date after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 207]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114203
page(s): 151 [details]
original description (of Mactra reevei Reeve, 1854) Reeve, L. A. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Mactra</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pl. 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 2-5, March 1854; pl. 1, 6-14, April 1854; pl. 15-21, May 1854]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120371 [details]
original description (of Mactra squalida Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 478 [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Mactra nebulosa Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827) Bory de St.-Vincent [J.B.G.M.]. (1827). <i>Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers</i>. Tome 1: part 29, pp. 83-84, 133-180 [Livraison 98, 27 September 1827]. Paris: Vve Agasse [Date after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 207]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114203
page(s): 151 [details]
original description (of Mactra reevei Reeve, 1854) Reeve, L. A. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Mactra</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pl. 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 2-5, March 1854; pl. 1, 6-14, April 1854; pl. 15-21, May 1854]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120371 [details]
original description (of Mactra squalida Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 478 [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Conchology (Mactra maculata GIANT)
To Conchology (Mactra maculata)
To Malacopics (Mactra maculata Gmelin, 1791 Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Bali, Candidasa, on sand, by snorkeling, at 1-2 m depth, collected 1995-02-00, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
To Conchology (Mactra maculata)
To Malacopics (Mactra maculata Gmelin, 1791 Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Bali, Candidasa, on sand, by snorkeling, at 1-2 m depth, collected 1995-02-00, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
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