Donax denticulatus

Author
Linnaeus, 1758

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
1 meters
Overall Geographic Range
southwest Caribbean, Yucatán, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • beach and shoreline
  • commercially important
  • infaunal
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.

  • Baqueiro C. E., C. M. Medina M., and D. Aldana Aranda. 2004. Catálogo de Conchas de la Península de Yucatán, Mexico. IX Reunión de la Sociedad Mexicana de Malacología y Conquiliología, Mérida Yucatán, México. 275 pp.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M. 2006. Western Atlantic Bivalves, ver. 1. URL: http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves/families/list.html, accessed June 14, 2006.

  • Rosenberg, G. 2005. Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.0.2)] URL: http://www.malacolog.org.

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, 05-10-2024.

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