Galapagos Species Database
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Eurytellina inaequistriata
Bivalve
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Cardiida
Superfamily
Tellinoidea
Family
Tellinidae
Genus
Eurytellina
Species
inaequistriata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Tellina (Eurytellina) inaequistriata Donovan, 1802, Tellina gemma Gould, 1853, Tellina inaequistriata Donovan, 1802, Tellina leucogona Dall, 1900, Tellina mantaensis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943, Tellina sanguinea Wood, 1815 (Horton et al., 2021).; (T. mantaensis) LACM: 33-59, 33-76 (fide Kaiser, 1997)
Origin: Native
Distribution: (T. mantaensis) Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama, to Caleta la Cruz, northern Peru.
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- 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.
- Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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