Donax variabilis

Author
Say, 1822
Common Names
  • Variable Coquina

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
11 meters
Overall Geographic Range
New York to Texas and Campeche Bank, Mexico
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Endnotes

  • HMNS.MAL 8074 – Little St. George Island, Franklin Co., Florida, intertidal sands.

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, 05-13-2024.

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