Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Rose-Painted Semele, Rose-Painted Semele;rose Petal Semele
Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 508 meters (0 to 1,667 feet).[1]
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:
Eulamellibranchia
()
- Order:
Veneroida
()
- H. & A. Adams, 1856
- Superfamily:
Tellinoidea
()
- Superfamily:
Tellinoidea
(
- Order:
Veneroida
(
- Superorder:
Eulamellibranchia
(
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Semele
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:
S. bellastriata (Cancellate Semele) · S. decisa (Clipped Semele) · S. incongrua (Incongruous Semele) · S. proficua (Atlantic Semele) · S. pulchra (Beautiful Semele) · S. purpurascens (Purplish Semele) · S. rubropicta (Rose-Painted Semele) · S. rupicola (Rock Semele) · S. venusta (Sharp-Rib Semele)
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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. 151.
- American journal of conchology. Philadelphia, G.W. Tryon, jr., 1865-72. url p. 144, p. 160.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 48.
- Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 106, p. 149.
- 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. 37.
- Digesta malacologica / by E. R. Sykes. London: W. Wesley and Son, 1901-1903. url p. 41.
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 2 1972 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 299, p. 300, p. 376, p. 405.
- Molluscan fauna from San Francisco bay, by E.L. Packard. Berkeley: University of California press, 1918. url p. 215.
- Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url , p. 106, p. 83.
- Paleontology of the Coalinga district, Fesno and Kings counties, California. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off.1909 url .
- Preliminary catalogue of the marine mollusca of the Pacific Coast of Canada, with notes upon their distribution. S.l., s.n., 1895 url p. 47.
- Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 174, p. 182.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 174, p. 182, p. 244, p. 518, p. 525.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 26, p. 7.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 134, p. 137, p. 20, p. 21, p. 22, p. 29, p. 68, p. 68, p. 97, p. 97.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 12 1956 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 196.
- University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 215.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 15, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
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: Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates (OBIS Canada)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NBI
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of Alaska Museum of the North Mollusc Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2693508
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-81292
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 81292
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 512662
Footnotes
- Mean = 192.810 meters (632.579 feet), Standard Deviation = 158.420 based on 156 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
