Choristodon robustum

Author
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1834)
Common Names
  • Atlantic Petricolid
  • Atlantic Rupellar
  • Atlantic Rupellaria

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
38 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, West Indies, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • burrower or borer
  • coral reef
  • intertidal to semiterrestrial
References

  • Coan, E. V. 1996. Recent species of the genus Petricola in the eastern Pacific (Bivalvia: Veneroidea). Festivus 28(11): 18–124.

  • 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

  • HMNS.MAL 46815 – 7–8 mi S of Alligator Point, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, dredged in 11.6–12.2 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, 05-04-2024.

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