Martesia fragilis Verrill & Bush 1898
Authors/Creators
- 1. Wetland Research and Training Centre, Barkul, Khordha, Odisha - 752030, India Email: debasish. marine @ gmail. com
- 2. CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar - 751013, India
- 3. N. B. Mehta Science College, Bordi, Palghar, Maharashtra - 401701, India
Description
1898. Martesia (Martesiella) fragilis Verrill & Bush, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. , 20: 777.
2017. Martesia fragilis: Subba Rao, Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occasional Paper No., 375: 440
Material examined: Dhamara offshore region (30 m depth), three live specimens were examined from a deteriorated wooden structure (Figure 1, Point 2, 20°26’55”N 87°55’27”E).
Diagnosis: Shell obliquely divided in the middle with angularly and longitudinally ribbed anterior half; posterior part with concentrically striated towards margin; one ventral shield and two dorsal shields upon the umbo present; one elongated and narrow shield on posterior part body is straighter and posterior part is brittle. Metaplax proportionately larger and lanceolate; mesoplax depressed and with concentric lines dorsally, and hypoplax is lanceolate (Mitra et al., 2010; Subba Rao, 2017).
Habitat: Found to be attached in the wooden pole and mangrove plants as borer.
Distribution: India: Odisha (Subarnarekha estuary; Offshore region of Dhamara estuary), Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra; Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Mitra et al., 2010; Subba Rao, 2017). Elsewhere: Eastern Pacific; Indo-Pacific; West Atlantic.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Verrill & Bush
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Myida
- Family
- Pholadidae
- Genus
- Martesia
- Species
- fragilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Martesia fragilis Verrill, 1898 sec. Mahapatro, Sharma & Kadam, 2020
References
- Mitra, S., Mishra, A. and Pattanayak, G. 2010. Inter-tidal macrofauna of Subarnarekha Estuary (Balasore: Orissa). Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No., 313: 1 - 135.
- Subba Rao, N. V. 2017. Indian Seashells (Part- 2): Bivalvia. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 375: 1 - 568.