Mactrotoma fragilis

Author
(Gmelin, 1791)
Common Names
  • Fragile Surfclam

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
5 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Yucatán, Mexico, Cuba, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • estuarine
  • infaunal
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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Endnotes

  • HMNS.MAL 1446 – NWGS station 1386, No. 9783, Heald Bank, 31 mi SSE of Galveston, Texas, 12 m. Present in NW Cuba (J. Ortea and J. Espinosa, Pers. Comm. 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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