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Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
140431 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140431)
accepted
Species
Corbula gibbosa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829 (junior synonym)
Mya uddevalensis Hancock, 1846 (synonym)
Subspecies Mya truncata ovata Jensen, 1900 accepted as Mya pseudoarenaria Schlesch, 1931
Subspecies Mya truncata pelagica W. King, 1846 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Mya truncata uddevallensis Forbes, 1846 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
Variety Mya truncata var. abbreviata Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
marine
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution Circumboreal
Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [details]
Distribution Circumboreal
Distribution Circumboreal [details]
Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan
Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2021-12-01
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original description
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Corbula gibbosa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Broderip, W. J.; Sowerby, G. B., I. (1829). Observations on new or intersting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 4: 359-379 [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 361 [details]
original description (of Mya ovalis W. Turton, 1822) Turton W. (1822). <i>Conchylia insularum britannicarum</i>. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Mya praecisa Gould, 1850) Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870453
page(s): 215. [details]
original description (of Mya pullus J. de C. Sowerby, 1826) Sowerby, J. de C. (1826-1835). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Vol. VI. London, privately published, pp. 1-230 + index [231-235], pls 504-609. [pp. 1-86, pls 504-545 (1826); pp. 87-156, pls 546-580 (1827); pp. 157-200, pls 581-597 (1828); pp. 201-230, pls 598-609, index pp. 231-235 (1829); systematical index (1835)]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50339
page(s): 58, pl. 531, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Sphenia swainsoni W. Turton, 1822) Turton W. (1822). <i>Conchylia insularum britannicarum</i>. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Mya uddevalensis Hancock, 1846) Hancock A. 1846. A list of shells dredged on the West Coast of Davis's Strait; with notes and descriptions of eight new species. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i>, 18: 323-338, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319632 [details]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Marine Biology Section, Ugent. Belgium. INRAM. Benthic fauna monitoring- SSD - Belgian Science Policy., available online at http://www.vliz.be/projects/inram/imers.php. [details]
additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</em> 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Amaro T., Duineveld G. & Tyler P. 2005. Does <i>Mya truncata</i> reproduce at its southern distribution limit? Preliminary information. [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zhang J.L., Yurchenko O.V., Lutaenko K.A., Kalachev A.V., Nekhaev I.O., Aguilar R., Zhan Z.F. & Ogburn M.B. (2018). A tale of two soft-shell clams: an integrative taxonomic analysis confirms <i>Mya japonica</i> as a valid species distinct from <i>Mya arenaria</i> (Bivalvia: Myidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 184(3): 605-622., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx107 [details]
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (of Corbula gibbosa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Broderip, W. J.; Sowerby, G. B., I. (1829). Observations on new or intersting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 4: 359-379 [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 361 [details]
original description (of Mya ovalis W. Turton, 1822) Turton W. (1822). <i>Conchylia insularum britannicarum</i>. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Mya praecisa Gould, 1850) Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870453
page(s): 215. [details]
original description (of Mya pullus J. de C. Sowerby, 1826) Sowerby, J. de C. (1826-1835). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Vol. VI. London, privately published, pp. 1-230 + index [231-235], pls 504-609. [pp. 1-86, pls 504-545 (1826); pp. 87-156, pls 546-580 (1827); pp. 157-200, pls 581-597 (1828); pp. 201-230, pls 598-609, index pp. 231-235 (1829); systematical index (1835)]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50339
page(s): 58, pl. 531, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Sphenia swainsoni W. Turton, 1822) Turton W. (1822). <i>Conchylia insularum britannicarum</i>. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Mya uddevalensis Hancock, 1846) Hancock A. 1846. A list of shells dredged on the West Coast of Davis's Strait; with notes and descriptions of eight new species. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i>, 18: 323-338, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319632 [details]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Marine Biology Section, Ugent. Belgium. INRAM. Benthic fauna monitoring- SSD - Belgian Science Policy., available online at http://www.vliz.be/projects/inram/imers.php. [details]
additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</em> 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Amaro T., Duineveld G. & Tyler P. 2005. Does <i>Mya truncata</i> reproduce at its southern distribution limit? Preliminary information. [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Zhang J.L., Yurchenko O.V., Lutaenko K.A., Kalachev A.V., Nekhaev I.O., Aguilar R., Zhan Z.F. & Ogburn M.B. (2018). A tale of two soft-shell clams: an integrative taxonomic analysis confirms <i>Mya japonica</i> as a valid species distinct from <i>Mya arenaria</i> (Bivalvia: Myidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 184(3): 605-622., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx107 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [details]From other sources
Dimensions reaches 2.5 to 7.5 cm in size [details]Distribution Circumboreal [details]
Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details]
Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Importance edible [details]
Reproduction separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | afstumpet sandmusling | [details] |
| Dutch | afgeknotte strandgaperafgeknotte gaper | [details] |
| English | truncate softshell clamtruncate softshellblunt gaper | [details] |
| French | mye tronquée | [details] |
| German | gestutzte Klaffmuschelabgestutzte Klaffmuschel | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (750 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Mya ovalis W. Turton, 1822)
To PESI (from synonym Sphenia swainsoni W. Turton, 1822)
To PESI (from synonym Mya uddevalensis Hancock, 1846)
To The Arctic Traits Database (12 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mya praecisa Gould, 1850)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033377)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (750 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Mya ovalis W. Turton, 1822)
To PESI (from synonym Sphenia swainsoni W. Turton, 1822)
To PESI (from synonym Mya uddevalensis Hancock, 1846)
To The Arctic Traits Database (12 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mya praecisa Gould, 1850)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033377)
To ITIS
