Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Veneroida > Superfamily Cyamioidea > Family Basterotiidae

Basterotia M. Hörnes, 1859 [ex Mayer MS]

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Basterotia angulata (S. V. Wood, 1857)
Basterotia clancula Cosel, 1995

Literature

original description

Hörnes M. 1859. [Charaktere eines neuen Bivalven-Geschlechtes]. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien, 9: 72-73

redescription

Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

ecology source

Goto R., Hamamura Y. & Kato M. (2011) Morphological and ecological adaptation of Basterotia bivalves (Galeommatoidea: Sportellidae) to symbiotic association with burrowing echiuran worms. Zoological Science 28: 225-234.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Basterotia M. Hörnes, 1859 [ex Mayer MS]. 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:181338

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine

Importance

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2010-10-25 by Philippe Bouchet

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