Ensis minor

Author
Dall, 1900
Common Names
  • Jackknife Clam
  • Minor Jackknife
  • Minor Jackknife Clam
  • Razor Shell

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
101 meters
Overall Geographic Range
New Jersey to Texas
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • estuarine
  • infaunal
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.

  • Moore, D. R. 1961. The marine and brackish water Mollusca of the State of Mississippi. Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Gulf Research Reports 1(1): 1–58.

  • 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

  • HMNS.MAL 45950 – St. Theresa, Florida, Gulf of Mexico.

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, 05-14-2024.

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