Periploma margaritaceum

Min Depth

0 meters

Max Depth

14 meters

Overall Geographic Range

South Carolina to Veracruz, Mexico

Habitat-Biology

benthic
estuarine
infaunal

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. 2006. Western Atlantic Bivalves, ver. 1. URL: http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves/families/list.html, accessed June 14, 2006.
Mikkelsen, P. M., and R. Bieler. 2000. Marine bivalves of the Florida Keys: discovered biodiversity. Pp. 367–387 in E. M. Harper, J. D. Taylor, and J. A. Crame, eds. The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia [Proceedings of the “Biology and Evolution of the Bivalvia”, an international symposium organized by the Malacological Society of London, 14–17 September 1999, Cambridge, UK]. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 177.
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.

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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