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Astarte borealis

(Boreal Astarte)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Boreal Astarte, Boreal Tridonta

Description

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Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 11 meters (37 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Astarte richardsoni Reeve • Astarte saintjohnensis Verkrüzen • Astarte semisulcata Möller • Tridonta borealis Schumacher

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 22-Dec-2004

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Astarte

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 19 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. arctica (Arctic Astarte) · A. bennetti (Bennett Tridonta) · A. borealis (Boreal Astarte) · A. castanea (Smooth Astarte) · A. compacta (Compact Astarte) · A. crenata (Crenulate Astarte) · A. elliptica (Alaska Tridonta) · A. esquimalti (Eskimo Astarte) · A. filatovae (Filatova Tridonta) · A. mirabilis (Strange Astarte) · A. montagui (Montagu Tridonta) · A. nana (Dwarf Astarte) · A. polaris (Polar Astarte) · A. quadrans (Squarish Astarte) · A. smithii (Smith Astarte) · A. sulcata (Sulcate Astarte) · A. undata (Wavy Astarte) · A. vernicosa (Varnished Astarte) · A. willetti (Willett Astarte)

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Standard Deviation = 409.350 based on 195 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/20/2012