Eucrassatella speciosa

Author
A. Adams, 1854
Common Names
  • Beautiful Crassatella

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Min Depth
18 meters
Max Depth
79 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Quintana Roo, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico offshore banks, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
  • soft substrate (muds, sands, clays)
References

  • 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.

  • Shelton, D. N. 1997. A systematic list of mollusks in the Northern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama. URL: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~dwills/marine/alamarsp.html.

  • Springer, S., and H. R. Bullis, Jr. 1956. Collections by the “Oregon” in the Gulf of Mexico. Lists of crustaceans, mollusks, and fishes identified from collections made by the exploratory fishing vessel “Oregon” in the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent seas 1950–1955. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Scientific Report No. 196. 134 pp.

Endnotes

  • HMNS.MAL 4707 – South Pass, Mississippi River, Louisiana, mud lumps.

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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