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Arcuatula

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Description

Arcuatula is a genus of mussels from the family Mytilidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcuatula, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2285788	https://www.gbif.org/species/2285788
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16382	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16382

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : Arcuatula

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : Arcuatula

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Mytilomorphi	Ferussac 1822
order	Mytilida
superfamily	Mytiloidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Mytilidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Arcuatula	Jousseaume 1919

Scientific Name

Arcuatula Jousseaume, 1919

Name Published In

Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 25

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Musculista	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Musculista	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	implied	Lamprell and Healy, 1998
Musculista	genus	belongs to Mytiloida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Musculista	genus	belongs to Musculinae	stated without evidence	Spencer et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.78 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwater (based on Mytilidae)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Mytilidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Mytilidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Mytilidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite, low Mg calcite,intermediate,minor ribbing (based on Mytilidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcuatula

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arcuatula arcuatula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula capensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula elegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula glaberrima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula japonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula leucosticta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula papyria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula perfragilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula senhousia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Arcuatula sootryeni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	41.3 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Arcuatula tristis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcuatula variegata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Musculista Yamamoto & Habe, 1958	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Musculista*
Lamya Soot-Ryen, 1958	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lamya*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1958	Musculista Yamamoto and Habe
1980	Musculista Vokes p. 26
1998	Musculista Lamprell and Healy p. 86
2002	Musculista Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Musculista Spencer et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Lamprell K., Healy J. (1998) , Bivalves of Australia 2

Spencer H. G., Willan R. C., et al (2004) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html]

Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 25 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aronsson, M. (2016) Exceldokument: Främmande arter grunddata.xls Skapat 2016-10-25 - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

WoRMS Editorial Board (2017) World Register of Marine Species - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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