Glycymeris americana

Author
DeFrance, 1826
Common Names
  • Giant American Bittersweet
  • Giant Bittersweet

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
37 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Yucatán, Mexico, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
References

  • Baqueiro C. E., C. M. Medina M., and D. Aldana Aranda. 2004. Catálogo de Conchas de la Península de Yucatán, Mexico. IX Reunión de la Sociedad Mexicana de Malacología y Conquiliología, Mérida Yucatán, México. 275 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.

  • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 2006. National Benthic Inventory of Soft Sediment Fauna Database. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. URL: http://nbi.noaa.gov/.

  • 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.

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. Since 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, 11-14-2025.

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