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Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758

140431  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140431)

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  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Myida (Order)
  10. Myoidea (Superfamily)
  11. Myidae (Family)
  12. Myinae (Subfamily)
  13. Mya (Genus)
  14. Mya truncata (Species)
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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758  
Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [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]

Distribution Circumboreal  
Distribution Circumboreal [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2025-07-18
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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. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Corbula gibbosa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1829). Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 4: 359-379, pl. 9. [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 361 [details] 

original description (of Mya ovalis W. Turton, 1822) Turton, W. (1822). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. 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 A. 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). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. 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 truncata pelagica W. King, 1846) King, W. (1846). An account of some shells and other invertebrate from found on the coast of Northumberland and of Durham. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 18: 233-251., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319570
page(s): 234 [details] 

original description (of Mya truncata var. abbreviata Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys J.G. (1865). Further report on Shetland dredging. <i>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864)</i>: 327-342, available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=yvRJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA327 [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 Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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). <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 Amaro T., Duineveld G. & Tyler P. 2005. (2005). Does <i>Mya truncata</i> reproduce at its southern distribution limit? Preliminary information. <em>Journal of Shellfish Research.</em> 24(1): 25–28,. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [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] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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Nomenclature ICZN direction 73: specific name of type species of Mya Linnaeus, 1758 [details]

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Dimensions reaches 2.5 to 7.5 cm in size [details]

Distribution Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details]

Distribution Circumboreal [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]
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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 (13 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (750 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mya truncata) 
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 11 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To Malacopics (Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Hoek van Holland, collected 1... 
To Malacopics (Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 North Sea, Outer Silver Pit, collected alive, collected ... 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales 
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 A. Gould, 1850)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033377) 
To ITIS
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