Chama pellucida

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Chamidae

Anterior and posterior adductor muscles separate, their scars distinct on both valves

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 772 meters (0 to 2,533 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chama

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. arcana (Secret Jewelbox) · C. congregata (Corrugate Jewelbox) · C. florida (Pretty Jewelbox) · C. lactuca (Milky Jewelbox) · C. macerophylla (Leafy Jewelbox) · C. sarda (Cherry Jewelbox) · C. sinuosa (Smooth-Edge Jewelbox)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 146, p. 51.
• American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url , , p. 393.
• Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory / Pomona College. Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- url p. 82.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 33.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 258, p. 259, p. 293.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 111, p. 113, p. 115, p. 124, p. 148.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 74 1978 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 58, p. 90.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 98.
• Catalogue of Californian fossils. (Parts II, III, IV, and V) by Dr. J.G. Cooper. Sacramento, A.J. Johnston, supt. State printing, 1894. url p. 24.
• Catalogue of marine shells in Lorenzo G. Yates' collection, Santa Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara, Cal., 1886. url p. 6.
• Check lists of the shells of North America Prepared for the Smithsonian institution, by Isaac Lea, P. P. Carpenter, Wm. Stimpson, W. G. Binney, and Temple Prime Washington, Smithsonian institution1860 url p. 2.
• Checklist of the recent bivalve mollusks (Pelecypoda) of the northwest coast of America from the Polar Sea to San Diego, California. By William Healy Dall... Los Angeles, 1916. url p. 26.
• Common sea-shells of California / by Josiah Keep. San Francisco: Printed for the Author by Upton Bros., 1881. url p. 49, p. 62, p. 63.
• Common sea-shells of California. By Josiah Keep. .. San Francisco, Printed for the author by Upton bros., 1881. url p. 62, p. 63.
• Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals / by Lovell Augustus Reeve. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. url .
• Conchological miscellany. Boston, etc., 1834?-1883? url p. 8.
• Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 130, p. 30.
• Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Calooshatchie River. Philadelphia, 1890-1903 url p. 1394, p. 1396, p. 1626.
• Ecological effects of an artificial island, Rincon Island, Punta Gorda, California / by G.F. Johnson and L.A. deWit; prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center. Fort Belvoir, Va.: Available from National Technical Information Service, [1978] url p. 26, p. 87.
• First annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory at Laguna Beach, Orange County, California. Claremont, Calif., Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912. url p. 82.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 672, p. 675.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 13, p. 86.
• Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Jena, Gustav Fischer [etc.]. url p. 352, p. 365, p. 367, p. 376, p. 377, p. 388, p. 407, p. 614, p. 623, p. 636, p. 646, p. 662.
• Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society. url , p. 478, p. 654.
• List of papers contributions to natural history, etc. chiefly on the conchology of North America, by Robert E.C. Stearns. San Francisco, 1878. url p. 2.
• List of the shells of South America in the collection of the British Museum. Collected and described by M. Alcide d'Orbigny. .. London, Printed by order of the trustees, 1854. url p. 87.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 130, p. 130, p. 18, p. 23, p. 23, p. 27, p. 35.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 8 1974 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url descr. of figs. 91-103, page 126, p. 17, p. 227, p. 228, p. 279, p. 281, p. 44.
• Molluscan fauna from San Francisco bay, by E.L. Packard. Berkeley: University of California press, 1918. url p. 263.
• Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url , p. 123, p. 198, p. 37, p. 80, p. 93.
• Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific: particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru); Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda / by Axel A. Olsson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, 1961. url p. 223, p. 39.
• Occasional papers - San Diego Society of Natural History. 1954 San Diego, The Society. url p. 10.
• Paleontology of the Coalinga district, Fesno and Kings counties, California. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off.1909 url , .
• Papers in marine biology and oceanography, dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow by his former students and associates on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1955. London, Pergamon Press, 1955. url p. 32.
• Point Lobos Reseerve; State Park, California. Interpretation of a primitive landscape. Sacramento, [State Print. Off., 1954] url p. 94.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 171, p. 181, p. 192, p. 244, p. 4, p. 485, p. 699.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 156, p. 189, p. 262, p. 342, p. 734.
• Shells and sea life. 17 1985 Phoenix, AZ: Miranda Enterprises, url p. 251.
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• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 104, p. 104, p. 111, p. 131, p. 20, p. 20, p. 20, p. 26, p. 41, p. 41, p. 42, p. 42, p. 56, p. 56, p. 82, p. 9, p. 9.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California Museum of Paleontology DiGIR provider
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NBI
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2693793
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-81659
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13782620
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 81659
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 512845

Footnotes

1. Mean = 291.530 meters (956.463 feet), Standard Deviation = 265.500 based on 17 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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