Entodesma beana

Author
d’Orbigny, 1853
Common Names
  • Pearly Entodesma
  • Pearly Lyonsia

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Min Depth
37 meters
Max Depth
37 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, West Indies, Brazil, Bermuda
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • commensal
References

  • Mikkelsen, P. M. 2006. Western Atlantic Bivalves, ver. 1. URL: http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves/families/list.html, accessed June 14, 2006.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M., and R. Bieler. 2004. Critical catalog and annotated bibliography of marine bivalve records for the Florida Keys. Malacologia 46(2): 545–623.

  • Pulley, T. E. 1952a. A zoogeographic study based on the bivalves of the Gulf of Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 215 pp.

  • Tunnell, J. W., Jr., and A. H. Chaney. 1970. A checklist of the mollusks of Seven and One-Half Fathom Reef northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Contributions in Marine Science 15: 194–203.

Endnotes

  • Type locale: Antilles; HMNS.MAL 46825 – 85 mi E of Marco Island, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, in 53.3 m. Present in NW Cuba (J. Ortea and J. Espinosa, Pers. Comm. 2005).

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 04-29-2024.

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