Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Arcoida > Superfamily Arcoidea > Family Glycymerididae > Genus Glycymeris

Glycymeris arabica (H. Adams, 1871)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Glycymeris*	da Costa, 1778	accepted genus name
*Pectunculus*	Lamarck, 1799	later homonym
*Axinaea*	Poli, 1791	synonym
*Axinaea (Pectunculus)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym
*Pectunculus*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym

Species group names

*Axinaea (Pectunculus) arabica*	H. Adams, 1871	basionym
*Axinaea (Pectunculus) arabica*	H. Adams, 1871	synonym

Literature

additional source	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	Nolf F. & Swinnen F. (2013) The Glycymerididae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Neptunea 12(3): 1-35.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

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WoRMS

External Links

Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GBIF

Citation

Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2014). Glycymeris arabica (H. Adams, 1871). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181278