Glycymeris undata

Author
Linnaeus, 1758
Common Names
  • Wavy Bittersweet

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
51 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Florida, southeast Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, West Indies, Brazil
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
References

  • Abbott, R. T. 1974. American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America, 2nd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, New York. 663 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.

  • Gonzáles, M. A., E. A. Chávez, G. de la Cruz, and D. Torruco. 1991. Patrones de distribución de gasterópodos y bivalvos en la Península de Yucatán, México. Ciencias Marinas 17(3): 147–172.

  • Hicks, D. W., N. C. Barrera and J. W. Tunnell, Jr. 2001. Ecological distribution of shallow-water Mollusca on Alacran Reef, Campeche Bank, Yucatan, Mexico. Texas Conchologist 38: 7–30.

Endnotes

  • Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (27.92°N, 93.71°W), in 20 m (F. Moretzsohn, Pers. Obs. 2005).

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, 05-06-2024.

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