Brachidontes domingensis

Author
Lamarck, 1819
Common Names
  • Santo Domingo Mussel

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Min Depth
2 meters
Max Depth
3 meters
Overall Geographic Range
southeast Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas, Cuba, Bermuda
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • byssate
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Davenport, R., Jr. 2001. South Padre Island, Texas. A list of live collected mollusks from the Coast Guard Station tidal flats. Texas Conchologist 38: 2–6.

  • Parker, R. H., and J. R. Curray. 1956. Fauna and bathymetry of banks on the continental shelf of northwest Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 40(10): 2428–2439.

Endnotes

  • Recorded from the Gulf shores of Cuba (between Cabo de San Antonio and Punta Hicacos) (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, 05-06-2024.

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