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Anomia aculeata O. F. Müller, 1776

156735  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156735)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Pectinida (Order)
  8. Anomioidea (Superfamily)
  9. Anomiidae (Family)
  10. Anomia (Genus)
  11. Anomia aculeata (Species)
 unaccepted (dubious synonym)
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  1. Variety Anomia aculeata var. hirta Dautzenberg, 1898 accepted as Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodrome of Danish Zoology, or the Native Animals of Denmark and Norway: the characters, names, and synonyms of the most popular ones.]. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 249 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Labrador to North Carolina. Northern Europe  
Distribution Labrador to North Carolina. Northern Europe [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Anomia aculeata O. F. Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156735 on 2025-04-03
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2005-05-19 14:10:07Z
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Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z
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Rosenberg, Gary
2010-11-18 14:08:23Z
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Tran, Bastien
2014-01-31 07:34:01Z
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Gofas, Serge
2022-08-16 07:16:01Z
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Neubauer, Thomas A.

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Nomenclature

original description Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodrome of Danish Zoology, or the Native Animals of Denmark and Norway: the characters, names, and synonyms of the most popular ones.]. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 249 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p. [details] 

additional source Foster, R. W. (1937). Notes on Anomia aculeata Müller. The Nautilus. 50(3): 102-103., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8524550 [details] 

additional source Merrill, A. S. (1962). Variation and change in surface sculpture in Anomia aculeata. The Nautilus. 75(4): 131-138, pl. 14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8283057 [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Dimensions reaches 20 mm in size [details]

Distribution Labrador to North Carolina. Northern Europe [details]

Habitat attaches to rocks and broken shells from lowtide mark to 600 m [details]

Reproduction separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]
LanguageName 
English jingle shell  [details]
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To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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