Hiatella arctica
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Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)
Figures 32 D–F
Mya arctica Linnaeus, 1767: p. 1113.
Saxicava hawaiensis Dall et al., 1938: p. 200, pl. 50, figs. 13–14.
Hiatella hawaiensis (Dall et al., 1938) — Rehder, 1980: p. 113, pl. 14, figs. 1–4.
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767) — Kay, 1979: p. 572, figs. 185 F–G; Preece, 1995: p. 351; Huber, 2010: p. 275, fig. 1; Spencer et al., 2011: p. 1; Severns, 2011: p. 484, pl. 222, fig. 4.
Material examined. Nearly fifty single valves from EI and SyG (BK), plus specimens from the Hawaiian Islands (MHU) and Pitcairn Island (BK).
Diagnosis. Shell small to medium, ovate to trapezoidal, often distorted and inflated. Posterior end longer than the anterior and usually gaping. Sculpture of irregular commarginal riblets or striae, rarely with one or two posterior radial ridges with minute spines. Hinge line weak, with one obscure cardinal tooth in RV, two in LV, Color chalky white.
Remarks. The specimens from EI and SyG conform to Hawaiian material, but are too close to European and American material to be separated without solid genetic data. Panamic material is currently also identified as H. arctica (Coan, pers. comm., 2010).
Habitat. Commonly found at many locations around EI and SyG, in sand and rubble, from 20–80 m.
Distribution. This widespread Atlantic and Pan-pacific species can be found from the Arctic Ocean to New Zealand, including the Pitcairn Islands, Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island— E6.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Hiatellidae
- Genus
- Hiatella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Adapedonta
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- arctica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767) sec. Raines & Huber, 2012
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. editio duodecima reformata. Holmiae. 1 (2), 533 - 1327.
- Dall, W. H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H. A. (1938) A manual of the recent and fossil marine pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Islands. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin, 153, 1 - 33.
- Rehder, H. A. (1980) The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Sala y Gomez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 289, 167 pp.
- Kay, E. A. (1979) Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii Sec. 4: Mollusca. Oahu, Hawaii (Bishop Museum Press), 653 pp.
- Preece, R. C. (1995) The composition and relationships of the marine molluscan fauna of the Pitcairn Islands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 56, 339 - 358.
- 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. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany, 901 pp., 1 CD.
- Spencer, H. G., Willan, R. C., Marshall, B. & Murray, T. J. (2011) Checklist of the recent Mollusca recorded from the New Zealand exclusive economic zone. Available from: http: // www. molluscs. otago. ac. nz / index. html (May 2011).
- Severns, M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands. The Sea Shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany, 564 pp.