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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Venerida : Mactridae : Mactrotoma : Mactrotoma californica |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Veneroidei : Mactridae : Mactrotoma : Mactrotoma californica |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Mactrotoma |
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| Scientific Name | Mactrotoma californica (Conrad, 1837) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Mactrotoma californica | species | belongs to Mactra | stated with evidence | Conrad, 1837 | | Mactrotoma californica | species | belongs to Micromactra | stated with evidence | Dall, 1894 | | Mactrotoma californica | species | belongs to Mactra (Mactrotoma) | stated with evidence | Packard, 1916 | | Mactrotoma californica | species | belongs to Mactrotoma (Micromactra) | stated with evidence | Coan et al., 2000 | | Mactrotoma californica | species | belongs to Mactrotoma | stated with evidence | Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic |
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| Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Mactrotoma) |
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| Vision | blind (based on Bivalvia) |
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| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Mactrotoma) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Bivalvia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott. 2012. Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6:1-1258 |
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| Common Name(s) | California Surfclam, Californian Mactra, Kalifornische Trogmuschel |
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| Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258 |
| Packard E. L. (1916) Mesozoic and Cenozoic Mactrinae of the Pacific Coast of North America, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9 16, 261-360 |
| Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764 |
| 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. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Cole, T. C. H. (2017) Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English: 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp - via Catalogue of Life |
| Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Coan, Eugene V., Paul Valentich Scott, and Frank R. Bernard, 2000: Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs, Number 2; Studies in Biodiversity, Number 2. viii + 764. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Mactrotoma californica
