Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
California Bittersweet
Common Names in unspecified:
California Bittersweet
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 42 meters (139 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
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
- 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:
subobsoleta
- (Carpenter, 1864)
- Scientific name: - Glycymeris subobsoleta (Carpenter, 1864)
- Specific name:
subobsoleta
- (Carpenter, 1864)
- 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: 24-Jun-1996
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. 49.
- American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 349.
- Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Pomona, Calif., Western Society of Malacologists. url p. 44.
- Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 109, p. 253.
- 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.
- Environmental assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf: Annual reports of principal investigators. [Boulder, Colo.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, url p. 509, p. 626, p. 646, p. 670, p. 671, p. 673, p. 674, p. 675, p. 676, p. 682.
- Essays in the natural sciences in honor of Captain Allan Hancock, on occasion of his birthday, July 26, 1955. Los AngelesUniversity of Southern California Press[1955] url p. 81.
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 1 1931 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 134, p. 135, p. 160, p. 161.
- Molluscan fauna from San Francisco bay, by E.L. Packard. Berkeley: University of California press, 1918. url p. 200, p. 250.
- Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url p. 64.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 169, p. 524, p. 606.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 178.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 109, p. 54.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 12 1957 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 296, p. 338.
- Type specimens of marine mollusca described by P. P. Carpenter from the west coast (San Diego to British Columbia) [New York, Geological Society of America]1958. url p. 21, p. 326, p. 63.
- University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 200, p. 250.
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 November 17, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
- University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of Alaska Museum of the North Mollusc Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2692099
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-79424
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13781486
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 79424
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 511843
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 124.180 based on 33 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
