Astarte elliptica

Astarte elliptica, or the "elliptical astarte", is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Astartidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Greenland to Massachusetts.[6]

Astarte elliptica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Crassatelloidea
Family: Astartidae
Genus: Astarte
Species:
A. elliptica
Binomial name
Astarte elliptica
(T. Brown, 1827)
Synonyms[1]
  • Crassina elliptica T. Brown, 1827[2]
  • Crassina ovata T. Brown, 1829[3]
  • Astarte intermedia G. B. Sowerby II, 1855[4]
  • Astarte elonga Høpner Petersen, 2001[5]

References
  1. Gofas, Serge (2004). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Astarte elliptica (Brown, 1827)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  2. Brown, Thomas (1827). "Plate XVIII". Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars. Fig. 3.
  3. Brown, Thomas (October 1829). "Description of Five New British Species of Shells". The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science. 1: 12; Pl. 1, Figs. 8-9
  4. Sowerby, G. B. "Astarte intermedia". Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or, Monographs of Genera of Shells. 2. London: Sowerby. p. 779.
  5. Høpner Petersen, G. (2001). "Astarte elonga n. sp. Holotype. ZMU-BIV-356". Studies on some Arctic and Baltic Astarte species (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience. 52. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-87-635-1256-5.
  6. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 41.
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