Dosinia elegans

Author
Conrad, 1843
Common Names
  • Elegant Dosinia

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
58 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Quintana Roo, Mexico, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
  • 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.

  • Dokken, Q. R., I. R. MacDonald, and J. W. Tunnell, Jr. 1998. Long-term monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks, 1996–1997 U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service OCS Study MMS 99-0005. 115 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.

  • Wiley, G. N., R. C. Circé, and J. W. Tunnell, Jr. 1982. Mollusca of the rocky shores of East Central Veracruz State, Mexico. The Nautilus 96(2): 55–61.

Endnotes

  • HMNS.MAL 3105 – 26 mi of Southwest Pass, Louisiana.

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, 05-07-2024.

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