Periploma tenerum

Author
P. Fischer, 1882
Common Names
  • Delicate Spoon Clam
  • Delicate Spoonclam

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Min Depth
37 meters
Max Depth
37 meters
Overall Geographic Range
North Carolina to Florida Keys
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.

  • 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.

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, 04-25-2024.

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