Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Comb Bittersweet
Description
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Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,907 meters (0 to -19,380 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
()
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
()
- Order:
Pteriomorpha
()
- Superfamily:
Limopsoidea
()
- Family:
Glycymerididae
()
- Newton, 1922
- Genus:
Glycymeris
()
- da Costa, 1778
- Specific name:
pectinata
- (Gmelin, 1791)
- Scientific name: - Glycymeris pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Specific name:
pectinata
- (Gmelin, 1791)
- Genus:
Glycymeris
(
- Family:
Glycymerididae
(
- Superfamily:
Limopsoidea
(
- Order:
Pteriomorpha
(
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
(
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Gmelin, J.F. in Linnaeus, C.
Systema Naturae
per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum
Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species,
cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. 13th Edn Lyon
: J.B. Delamolliere Tom
. 1 pars 6, pp. 3021–3910., 1791.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Glycymeris
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:
G. americana (Giant American Bittersweet) · G. corteziana (Cortez Bittersweet) · G. decussata (Decussate Bittersweet) · G. glycymeris (European Bittersweet) · G. keenae (Commarginal Bittersweet) · G. pectinata (Comb Bittersweet) · G. septentrionalis (Anorthern Bittersweet) · G. spectralis (Spectral Bittersweet) · G. subobsoleta (California Bittersweet) · G. subtilis (Bermuda Bittersweet) · G. undata (Wavy Bittersweet)
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Further Reading
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- A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 148, p. 39.
- A contribution to the geologic history of the Floridian plateau, by Thomas Wayland Vaughan. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910 url p. 176.
- American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 348.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 64.
- Bulletins of American paleontology. 40 1960 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 426, p. 89, p. 90, p. 91.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 176.
- 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. 1601, p. 1611, p. 612.
- Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 938.
- Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 305.
- Geomorphology and sediments of the inner continental shelf: Palm Beach to Cape Kennedy, Florida / by Edward P. Meisburger and David B. Duane. [Washington]: U. S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 1971. url p. 30, p. 30, p. 39, p. 39.
- Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Chapel Hill, N.C. [etc.]Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society [etc.] url p. 130.
- Marine shells of the western coast of Flordia / by Louise M. Perry and Jeanne S. Schwengel. Illus. by W. Hammersley Southwick, Axel A. Olsson, and Frank White. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, 1955. url p. 204.
- Palaeontographica Americana. 1965 Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, url p. 42.
- Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908-42. url p. 176.
- Pleistocene deposits of South Carolina: with an especial attempt at ascertaining what must have been the environmental conditions under which the Pleistocene Mollusca of the state lived / by Griffith Thompson Pugh. Nashville, Tenn., 1905. url p. 58.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 8.
- Tektite 2: scientists in the sea / Ed. by J.W. Miller, J.G. VanDerwalker, and R.A. Waller. Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1971 [i.e. 1972] url p. 226.
- Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url , , , , p. 121, p. 45, p. 83.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 11, p. 11.
- Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia, 1887-1927. url p. 1601, p. 1611, p. 612.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Benthic biodiversity along the central coast in the Brazilian EEZ (OBIS South America, BRAZIL) (OBIS South America, BRAZIL)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NBI
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: REVIZEE Score Sul / Bentos (OBIS South America, BRAZIL)
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2692103
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-79428
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 705198
Footnotes
- Mean = -455.880 meters (-1,495.669 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,104.510 based on 104 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
