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Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.

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Mya margaritifera [spec. nov.]

M. testa ovata antice coarctata, cardinis dente primario conico, natibus decorticatis.

Fn. svec. 1331.

List. conch. t. 149. f. 4.

angl. app. 15. t. 1. f. 1.

Klein. ostr. t. 10. f. 47.

Habitat in totius orbis arctici cataractis.

Testa ovali-oblonga, ponderosa, antice retuso compressa, extus rudis nigricans, latere angustiore s. superiore subvillosa, Natibus valde excorticatis, per siccitatem fragilis etiam per se. Intus Testa albida cicatricibus duabus pro insertione musculorum. Cardinis Dens conicus, obtusus, porrectus, lateralis nullus; sed in minoribus longitudinalis crenulatus; an vero minor specie diversa?

Notes

Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 671, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Myoida
Family
Myidae
Genus
Mya
Species
margaritifera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
spec. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758