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Malleus (Malvufundus) candeanus

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Description

MALLEUS (MALVUFUNDUS) CANDEANUS (ORBIGNY, 1842)

West Atlantic, FK-302, Sand Key transect, Monroe County, Florida Keys, Florida, USA, 24°26.30′N, 81°53.32′W, 20 m, scuba, rubble (two pairs with tissue, AMNH 299406); West Atlantic, FK-260, Looe Key coral reef, just east of channel marker 24, ocean side of Ramrod Key, Monroe County, Florida Keys, Florida, USA, 24°32.80′N, 81°24.80′W, scuba, spur and groove reef, maximum 7.3–7.6 m (one pair with tissue; AMNH 298194); West Atlantic, Bermuda, Harrington Sound, in old ‘ Lithophaga’ holes (three pairs with tissue, MCZ 340681); West Atlantic, Bermuda, Harrington Sound (one pair; AMNH 247234).

Principal references: Boss & Moore (1967) (shell morphology); Waller & Macintyre (1982) (shell morphology and prodissoconch).

Notes

Published as part of Tëmkin, Ilya, 2006, Morphological perspective on the classification and evolution of Recent Pterioidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia), pp. 253-312 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148 (3) on page 310, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00257.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5427755

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , MCZ
Material sample ID
AMNH 247234 , AMNH 298194 , AMNH 299406 , MCZ 340681
Scientific name authorship
Orbigny
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Ostreida
Family
Malleidae
Genus
Malleus
Species
candeanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Malleus (Malvufundus) candeanus (Orbigny, 1842) sec. Tëmkin, 2006