Amygdalum politum

Author
Verrill & Smith, 1880
Common Names
  • Polished Paper Mussel

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Min Depth
203 meters
Max Depth
1829 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Atlantic Ocean to Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • byssate
  • deep sea
  • epibiotic
References

  • Abbott, R. T. 1974. American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America, 2nd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, New York. 663 pp.

  • Maury, C. J. 1934. Fossil Invertebrata from Northeastern Brazil. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 67(4): 123–179, pl. 9–19.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Endnotes

  • HMNS.MAL 37613 – Gulf of Mexico, 29°19.8¢N, 87°25.5¢W, in 402 m.

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, 05-03-2024.

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