Cyrtopleura costata

Author
Linnaeus, 1758
Common Names
  • Angelwing

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
49 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Massachusetts to Yucatán, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico offshore banks, Brazil, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • burrower or borer
  • commercially important
  • soft substrate (muds, sands, clays)
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.

  • 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.

  • Neumann, A. C. 1958. The configuration and sediments of Stetson Bank, northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Project 24, Section VII Research Report, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 125 pp.

  • 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.

  • Reguero, M., and A. García-Cubas. 1994. Moluscos de la Laguna Pueblo Viejo, Veracruz, México: sistemática y ecología. Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 20(1): 77–104.

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, 05-10-2024.

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