Gastrochaena ovata

Author
G.B. Sowerby II, 1834
Common Names
  • Ovate Gastrochaenid
  • Ovate Rocellaria

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Min Depth
6 meters
Max Depth
49 meters
Overall Geographic Range
South Carolina to Texas and Mexico, West Indies, Bermuda; Eastern Pacific
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • burrower or borer
  • coral reef
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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Type locality: “Sinu Panamensi” (Gulf of Panama), “Isle of Perico and Insulam Platae” (Island of Plata).

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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