Solemya occidentalis

Author
Deshayes, 1857
Common Names
  • West Indian Awning Clam

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Min Depth
7 meters
Max Depth
10 meters
Overall Geographic Range
South Florida to LA and northwest Gulf of Mexico offshore banks, West Indies
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • 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.

  • Lipka, D. A. 1974. Mollusks. Pp. 142–196 in T. J. Bright and L. H. Pequegnat, eds. Biota of the West Flower Garden Banks. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. 435 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.

  • Rosenberg, G. 2005. Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.0.2)] URL: http://www.malacolog.org.

  • USEPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 2005. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Soft Sediment Fauna Database. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. URL: http://www.epa.gov/emap/.

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, 05-09-2024.

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