Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

LACM: 66-211 (fide Coan, 1988); Syn.: Amphidesma laeta Reeve, 1853, Amphidesma variabile Gray, 1825, Amphidesma variegata Lamarck, 1818, Semele ornata Gould, 1862, Semele sparsilineata Dall, 1915, Tellina obliqua Wood, 1815, Venus purpurascens Gmelin, 1791, fide Appeltans et al. (2010)

Origin: Native

Distribution: Belize, Caribbean Sea, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, Mexico, Venezuela (Horton et al., 2021).

• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
• Coan, E.V. (1988) Recent eastern Pacific species of the bivalve genus Semele. The Veliger 31: 1-42.
• Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.