Amygdalum papyrium

Author
Conrad, 1846
Common Names
  • Atlantic Paper Mussel

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
38 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Maryland to Texas, Cuba, Puerto Rico
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • byssate
  • epibiotic
  • estuarine
References

  • Camp, D. K., W. G. Lyons, and T. H. Perkins. 1998. Checklists of selected shallow-water marine invertebrates of Florida. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, FMRI Technical Report TR-3. 238 pp.

  • Moore, D. R. 1961. The marine and brackish water Mollusca of the State of Mississippi. Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Gulf Research Reports 1(1): 1–58.

  • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 2006. National Benthic Inventory of Soft Sediment Fauna Database. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. URL: http://nbi.noaa.gov/.

  • Odé, H., and A. B. Speers. 1964–1974. Notes concerning Texas beach shells. Texas Conchologist, Vol. 1–10.

  • Pequegnat, W. E. 1983. The ecological communities of the continental slope and adjacent regimes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Services contract AA851-CT1-12 by TerEco Corp. College Station, Texas. 398 pp. + Appendices A1–C40.

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, 05-08-2024.

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