MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Mya purpurea Montagu, 1808) Montagu, G. (1808). Supplement to Testacea Britannica with Additional Plates. Woolmer, Exeter. v + 183 pp., pl. 17-30. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61685744
page(s): 21 [details]
original description
(of Turtonia nitida A. E. Verrill, 1872) Verrill, A. E. (1872). Brief contributions to zoölogy, from the Museum of Yale College. No. XX. Recent additions to the molluscan fauna of New England and the adjacent waters, with notes on other species. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (3) 3 (15): 281-290; pl. 6-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36995471
page(s): 286, pl. 7 fig. 4, 4ª [details]
original description
(of Turtonia occidentalis Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 7(2): 93-159, pl. 13-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15918246
page(s): 150 [details]
original description
(of Venus minuta O. Fabricius, 1780) Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285
page(s): 412-413 [details]
basis of record
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [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 [request]
additional source
Ockelmann, K. W. (1964). <i>Turtonia minuta</i> (Fabricius), a neotenous Veneracean Bivalve. <em>Ophelia.</em> 1(1): 121-146. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
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Dimensions reaches 2 to 3 mm in size [details]
Distribution Arctic Seas to Massachusetts; Alaska to Baja California; Europe [details]
Distribution Often very common, circumpolar [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]
Taxonomy Due to neoteny, Ockelmann (1964) suggested that Turtonia minuta could have been arisen out of the Veneridae. [details]
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