MolluscaBase - Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758

NSBP taxon details

Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

140431 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140431)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Mya Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Mya Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Rees, H.; Cochrane, S.J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; de Kluijver, M.; Degraer, S.; Desroy, N.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Duineveld, G.; Essink, K.; Hillewaert, H.; Kilbride, R.; Kröncke, I.; Nehmer, P.; Rachor, E.; Reiss, H.; Robertson, M.; Rumohr, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Van Hoey, G. (Eds.) (2021) North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP) at: http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/nsbp/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2025-04-04

Thematic species database citation

Rees, H.; Cochrane, S.J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; de Kluijver, M.; Degraer, S.; Desroy, N.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Duineveld, G.; Essink, K.; Hillewaert, H.; Kilbride, R.; Kröncke, I.; Nehmer, P.; Rachor, E.; Reiss, H.; Robertson, M.; Rumohr, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Van Hoey, G. (Eds.) (2025). North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP). Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/nsbp/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2025-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

[taxonomic tree]

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 670 [details] Available for editors

context source (BeRMS 2020) Marine Biology Section, Ugent. Belgium. INRAM. Benthic fauna monitoring- SSD - Belgian Science Policy., available online at http://www.vliz.be/projects/inram/imers.php. [details]

additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Amaro T., Duineveld G. & Tyler P. 2005. (2005). Does Mya truncata reproduce at its southern distribution limit? Preliminary information. Journal of Shellfish Research. 24(1): 25–28,. [details] Available for editors

additional source Zhang J.L., Yurchenko O.V., Lutaenko K.A., Kalachev A.V., Nekhaev I.O., Aguilar R., Zhan Z.F. & Ogburn M.B. (2018). A tale of two soft-shell clams: an integrative taxonomic analysis confirms Mya japonica as a valid species distinct from Mya arenaria (Bivalvia: Myidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184(3): 605-622., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx107 [details] Available for editors