Ctena orbiculata

Author
(Montagu, 1808) 
Common Names
  • Dwarf Tiger Lucina
  • Dwarf Tiger Lucine

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
183 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Honduras, Panama, West Indies, Brazil, Bermuda
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
  • coral reef
  • coastal lagoon
Microhabitat
  • reef massif
  • sand
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.

  • Lipka, D. A. 1974. Mollusks. Pp. 142–196 in T. J. Bright and L. H. Pequegnat, eds. Biota of the West Flower Garden Banks. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. 435 pp.

  • 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.

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, 05-05-2024.

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