Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Anorthern Bittersweet, Northern Bittersweet
Description
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,080 meters (0 to 3,543 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- 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
- Class:
Bivalvia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Bivalves
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
()
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
()
- Order:
Pteriomorpha
()
- Superfamily:
Limopsoidea
()
- Family:
Glycymerididae
()
- Newton, 1922
- Genus:
Glycymeris
()
- da Costa, 1778
- Specific name:
septentrionalis
- (Middendorff, 1849)
- Scientific name: - Glycymeris septentrionalis (Middendorff, 1849)
- Specific name:
septentrionalis
- (Middendorff, 1849)
- Genus:
Glycymeris
(
- Family:
Glycymerididae
(
- Superfamily:
Limopsoidea
(
- Order:
Pteriomorpha
(
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
(
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
(
- Class:
Bivalvia
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 15.
- 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. 13.
- Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 100, p. 101, p. 30.
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 1 1931 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 134, p. 160, p. 161, p. 408.
- Paleontology of the Coalinga district, Fesno and Kings counties, California. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off.1909 url p. 82.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, Calif.: California Academy of Sciences, 1897- url p. 197.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 3.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 66.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 5 1929 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 251.
Notes
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:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates (OBIS Canada)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2692102
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-79427
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 705199
Footnotes
- Mean = 356.430 meters (1,169.390 feet), Standard Deviation = 495.270 based on 7 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
