Spengleria rostrata

Author
(Spengler, 1783)
Common Names
  • Rostrate Gastrochaenid

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Min Depth
4 meters
Max Depth
57 meters
Overall Geographic Range
East Florida to AL, Cuba, US Virgin Islands, Brazil, Bermuda
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • burrower or borer
  • coral reef
Microhabitat
  • rock
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. 2004. Critical catalog and annotated bibliography of marine bivalve records for the Florida Keys. Malacologia 46(2): 545–623.

  • Shelton, D. N. 1997. A systematic list of mollusks in the Northern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama. URL: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~dwills/marine/alamarsp.html.

  • Tunnell, J. W., Jr. 1974. Ecological and geographical distribution of Mollusca of Lobos and Enmedio coral reefs. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas. 158 pp.

Endnotes

  • Recorded from the Gulf shores of Cuba (between Cabo de San Antonio and Punta Hicacos) (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, 05-11-2024.

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