Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Protothaca asperrima (Sowerby, 1835), Venus asperrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

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• Bernard, F.R. (1983) Catalogue of the living Bivalvia of the eastern Pacific Ocean: Bering Strait to Cape Horn. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa, 102 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.
• Skoglund, C. (1991) Additions to the Panamic Province Bivalve (Mollusca) literature - 1971 to 1990. The Festivus 22, Supplement 2 (1990): 74 pp.