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<emphasis id="06ECA721B55C9A6A2421036F934F722C" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="9388F9ECE8B86075D6035F40736C7644" author="Hanley SCT" issue="24" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Society of London, Proceedings for" pagination="340-341" refId="B24" refString="Hanley SCT (1857) Descriptions of four new species of Kelliadae in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Zoological Society of London, Proceedings for 1856 [24]: 340 - 341." title="Descriptions of four new species of Kelliadae in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq." volume="1856" year="1857">Hanley, 1857</bibRefCitation>
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<figureCitation id="20A749423BC4A68071D1598B20F26673" captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Melliteryx mactroides A – F SBMNH 665156, length = 6.0 mm, height = 5.0 mm A exterior of right valve B exterior of left valve C interior of left valve D interior of right valve E hinge of left valve F hinge of right valve G living animals crawling on a rock H living animal with foot and mantle extended (note biofilm present in G and H)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1207.124517.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1097714">Fig. 5 A – H</figureCitation>
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<xref id="DBE46CA1B5A16D122EA491B825E24127" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S3">, Suppl. materials 3</xref>
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<xref id="C21D21EBF673D492B832D5C3118E9745" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S4">, 4</xref>
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<emphasis id="D07E7094EC1025D16B627922E58199C0" italics="true">Pythina mactroides</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="A55ADB24AD7B678A297EE5DCFB95ABF9" author="Hanley SCT" issue="24" journalOrPublisher="Zoological Society of London, Proceedings for" pagination="340-341" refId="B24" refString="Hanley SCT (1857) Descriptions of four new species of Kelliadae in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Zoological Society of London, Proceedings for 1856 [24]: 340 - 341." title="Descriptions of four new species of Kelliadae in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq." volume="1856" year="1857">Hanley, 1857: 340</bibRefCitation>
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from
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,
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<heading id="AFEE59AA285D5D570FCA283B5FBF0F59" reason="title">Description.</heading>
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trigonal, thick for size, moderately inflated, cream colored; subequilateral; umbos narrow, pointed; anterior and posterior ends broadly rounded; shell margins not gaping; periostracum thick, adherent, yellow to dark brown; exterior sculpture of fine commarginal striae, some with micro-pits; hinge plate broad; both valves with an anterior and posterior lateral tooth with a wide gap between them; left valve small central pseudocardinal tooth; anterior lateral tooth in right valve with small thickening near umbos; ligament oblique, narrow, in shallow resilifer. Length up to
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<label id="EA8E32649E261EC7CB002BC722F2B884">Figure 5.</label>
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<taxonomicName id="EF1E2BF81756C81CA04FF757A54C1C91" baseAuthorityName="Hanley" baseAuthorityYear="1857" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mactroides">
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<emphasis id="439D09F5452C9438184081A6C4BC2725" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="98FD212ADE5B975F61974AD716198EDF" bold="true">A – F</emphasis>
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<named-content id="F1A89264D2BABDBFC97B8B53A908181E" content-type="dwc:institutional_code" xlink_href="http://grbio.org/institution/santa-barbara-museum-natural-history" xlink_title="Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History">SBMNH</named-content>
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665156, length = 6.0 mm, height = 5.0 mm
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<emphasis id="1F218A1F1E345100E45ECFBD34008DEB" bold="true">A</emphasis>
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exterior of right valve
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exterior of left valve
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interior of left valve
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interior of right valve
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hinge of left valve
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hinge of right valve
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living animals crawling on a rock
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living animal with foot and mantle extended (note biofilm present in
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and
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).
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<emphasis id="B789932EA00ED806D7743E9A3AB4F29D" bold="true" italics="true">Mantle</emphasis>
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Translucent, only slightly reflected, forming a facultative siphon posteriorly (see Suppl. material
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<xref id="CCDC017DDB93E067E228AF20D99DC0CF" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S3">3</xref>
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).
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.
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Long, broad, translucent, with distinct heel. This species is an active crawler (see Suppl. material
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<xref id="A92B6BC91DFE8414AD92D6032C64CEBE" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S3">3</xref>
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).
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.
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With one demibranch on each side, comprised of ~ 75 narrowly spaced filaments in larger specimens.
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<heading id="EE35900FD03554DA14DF694C980610F1" reason="title">Type.</heading>
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1967994,
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of Good Hope,
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<paragraph id="EB005FD5B4FDB5D3EF755EEB3E6CC516">
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<heading id="EEA16477C9D5C14933F76DC98255B1CD" reason="title">Commensal relationship and habitat.</heading>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2B23EC9D463BBCDBA2A1FBD130F6C0E8">Found in small groups of 10–20 animals, clinging to the underside of rocks in the lower intertidal. We have found no directly associated hosts.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="SECID0E3ZAG" type="comparisons">
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<paragraph id="CB000694101FF73AB4E20D4CF72C2FC5">
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<heading id="97A333AEF827572761706DD05A6A4106" reason="title">Comparisons.</heading>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="40AF290E2C2CF84C3BBC55FA057B2C52">
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<bibRefCitation id="C0BDC68B189D31C0F7160A2A9A523155" author="Huber M" firstAuthor="Huber" journalOrPublisher="Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks)" refId="B26" refString="Huber M (2015) Compendium of bivalves 2. Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks), 907 pp." title="Compendium of bivalves 2." year="2015">Huber (2015)</bibRefCitation>
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documented two additional species of
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<taxonomicName id="632709F2EC2B99842AA8EAD659881F7B" authorityName="Iredale" authorityYear="1924" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
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||
<emphasis id="7DA29E1C944EA47A71D71DFA82D266C1" italics="true">Melliteryx</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
in
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F4975CAD0E7C51DA7C905860447B1CE3" name="South Africa">South Africa</collectingCountry>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="40B24B2AE75CF94F0CC6FCFF4B7C415D" authority="Huber, 2015" authorityName="Huber" authorityYear="2015" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="jaeckeli">
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||
<emphasis id="6FE01223C0A0810432C965D30110442F" italics="true">Melliteryx jaeckeli</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation id="82E6925E53828ECEF030F0662D795034" author="Huber M" journalOrPublisher="Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks)" refId="B26" refString="Huber M (2015) Compendium of bivalves 2. Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks), 907 pp." title="Compendium of bivalves 2." year="2015">Huber, 2015</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName id="EE2C995371200A27B2111E522E210F58" authority="(Smith, 1904)" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1904" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="fortidentata">
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||
<emphasis id="D0DA9947362D84C2D12F54DB3864FB9C" italics="true">Melliteryx fortidentata</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="837DE2632BED28F3B3D9362876D98444" author="Smith EA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Malacology" pagination="21-44" refId="B57" refString="Smith EA (1904) On a collection of marine shells from Port Alfred, Cape Colony. Journal of Malacology 11: 21 - 44." title="On a collection of marine shells from Port Alfred, Cape Colony." volume="11" year="1904">Smith, 1904</bibRefCitation>
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)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="CFCA089E891393EEA8B114949B20D7EF" authorityName="Huber" authorityYear="2015" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="jaeckeli">
|
||
<emphasis id="C8AAD53B83267601B7FFAD23B4C42301" italics="true">Melliteryx jaeckeli</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a much weaker hinge plate than
|
||
<taxonomicName id="3A9CBA3CAECDCC0E6CDD364D792F455B" baseAuthorityName="Hanley" baseAuthorityYear="1857" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mactroides">
|
||
<emphasis id="AF03EB88DBEB7F1C7CCCBE25D605321A" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and we question whether this is the correct genus for the Smith species.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="2997AE7FEC6D16586DA13FBA426FC944" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1904" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="fortidentata">
|
||
<emphasis id="A5235B567D01D414C3D02BB8711D9EE5" italics="true">Melliteryx fortidentata</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is inequilateral, with the umbos placed well off the center, compared to the subequilateral
|
||
<taxonomicName id="BC4AF25C1209E301827719EF2A8AA6C6" baseAuthorityName="Hanley" baseAuthorityYear="1857" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mactroides">
|
||
<emphasis id="C84EBF7061E66FF5AE7C6B9258C8FC07" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="SECID0EP3AG" type="Locality information">
|
||
<paragraph id="D9537F12378E9A9A48B8B93BECD26D29">
|
||
<heading id="C821CDC6C9C79C96EFDA15B8769DBCCD" reason="title">Locality information.</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="AA33C20592E86A243EEF088B6240EA7B">
|
||
Specimens were collected in the intertidal at Miller's Point (
|
||
<named-content content-type="dwc:verbatimCoordinates" id="NCID0EY3AG" specific-use="{"type":"Point","coordinates":[18.476000,-34.231000]}">
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="0B825B81101EE1A8D2DA82E4C440AF1C" degrees="34.231" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="55" value="-34.231">34.231 ° S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="B1C40EDE7772615093A95BCDCF52A5C1" degrees="18.476" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="55" value="18.476">18.476 ° E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
</named-content>
|
||
). Voucher specimens were deposited as
|
||
<named-content id="F8D075AB868BF60761E63C04B5FCAAD3" content-type="dwc:institutional_code" xlink_href="http://grbio.org/institution/santa-barbara-museum-natural-history" xlink_title="Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History">
|
||
<collectionCode id="D74292A7393A8C5AC7DA755A072C3F86" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34834" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34834" name="Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History" type="Museum">SBMNH</collectionCode>
|
||
</named-content>
|
||
665156,
|
||
<collectionCode id="F911D8703A8A3E4335C90DA81B08B5EB">SAMC-A</collectionCode>
|
||
096820, and
|
||
<named-content id="015B658496648200EC0CDF1AFB9B5FD5" content-type="dwc:institutional_code" xlink_href="http://grbio.org/institution/university-colorado-museum-natural-history" xlink_title="Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado">
|
||
<collectionCode id="E5C157533E4E74CC308B330E281BA8E5" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34854" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34854" name="University of Colorado Museum of Natural History" type="University or college">UCM</collectionCode>
|
||
</named-content>
|
||
60477.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="SECID0EF4AG" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="27ABEA7251E0BFCF71FDA2689272B61F">
|
||
<heading id="658F2005C49210E8DE7206AF10606941" reason="title">Discussion.</heading>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B4F2CE2471B25782417A2653B9D80C85">
|
||
We are following
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="5EB0A21214369282272E60853F1F8D51" author="Huber M" firstAuthor="Huber" journalOrPublisher="Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks)" refId="B26" refString="Huber M (2015) Compendium of bivalves 2. Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks), 907 pp." title="Compendium of bivalves 2." year="2015">Huber (2015)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
and
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="941938D4225BB704FED10BE78C0D77EB" DOI="10.5852/fft48" author="Cosel R von & Gofas S" firstAuthor="Cosel" journalOrPublisher="Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris" refId="B9" refString="Cosel R von, Gofas S (2019) Marine bivalves of tropical west Africa from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1104 pp. https://doi.org/10.5852/fft48" title="Marine bivalves of tropical west Africa from Rio de Oro to southern Angola." year="2019">Cosel and Gofas (2019)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
with the placement of this species into the genus
|
||
<taxonomicName id="BAE42127C4D54A033DEB09092DAAFAF0" authorityName="Iredale" authorityYear="1924" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="1A5766C1AD93C6423DBE3A72C07FB064" italics="true">Melliteryx</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. As our molecular results indicate below there is little resolution of the genera due to lack of taxon sampling globally. With further genetic data it is possible that our South African species might fall into an undescribed genus.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="98779CC3D4C32D18B1D9269D0EE74BB9">
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="3C4797D89F28F521C830217AB998DD13" DOI="10.5852/fft48" author="Cosel R von & Gofas S" firstAuthor="Cosel" journalOrPublisher="Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris" refId="B9" refString="Cosel R von, Gofas S (2019) Marine bivalves of tropical west Africa from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1104 pp. https://doi.org/10.5852/fft48" title="Marine bivalves of tropical west Africa from Rio de Oro to southern Angola." year="2019">Cosel and Gofas (2019)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
reported
|
||
<taxonomicName id="AC8B90E292007824FCF22C9EF0A836D1" baseAuthorityName="Hanley" baseAuthorityYear="1857" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mactroides">
|
||
<emphasis id="CC6CAAF54D5F78E2685E6074DBF06D7E" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from tropical West Africa. The specimens they illustrate are more elongate than our specimens and have a weaker hinge plate. Additional study must be completed to determine if these are indeed the same species, or if the tropical West Africa specimens represent a new species.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="BA5270AEE48FE608B8F53C818E061D63">
|
||
On the shell exterior in living specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="0776C6F0D4443077DCFFE4FDA1EE3DA5" baseAuthorityName="Hanley" baseAuthorityYear="1857" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Melliteryx" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="mactroides">
|
||
<emphasis id="E64EF870A71879B15A10AF8920BC9BCE" italics="true">Melliteryx mactroides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
we observed a dense layer of filamentous biofilm (see Suppl. material
|
||
<xref id="2FADBDC5071C785FD1824C617006FDC2" ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="S4">4</xref>
|
||
). A similar biofilm was reported by (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="56709C53068728AE6DA8B037DC82B991" DOI="10.3354/ame012001" author="Gillan and De Ridder" firstAuthor="Gillan" journalOrPublisher="Aquatic Microbial Ecology" pagination="1-10" refId="B16" refString="Gillan DC, De Ridder C (1997) Morphology of a ferric iron-encrusted biofilm forming on the shell of a burrowing bivalve (Mollusca). Aquatic Microbial Ecology 12: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame012001" title="Morphology of a ferric iron-encrusted biofilm forming on the shell of a burrowing bivalve (Mollusca)." volume="12" year="1997">Gillan and De Ridder 1997</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) and (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="8AB0111703DBADB47685F639EDD3FBAC" DOI="10.1080/01490450050023818" author="Gillan" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Gillan" issue="2" journalOrPublisher="Geomicrobiology Journal" pagination="141-150" refId="B17" refString="Gillan DC, Warnau M, De Vrind-De Jong E, Boulvain F, Preat A, De Ridder C, Gillan DC, Michel Warnau E (2000) Iron oxidation and deposition in the biofilm covering Montacuta ferruginosa (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Geomicrobiology Journal 17 (2): 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490450050023818" title="Iron oxidation and deposition in the biofilm covering Montacuta ferruginosa (Mollusca, Bivalvia)." volume="17" year="2000">Gillan et al. 2000</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) in the North Atlantic galeommatid
|
||
<taxonomicName id="165599A9E3BBB0C30BFF0C5F62EB54AC" authority="(Montagu, 1808)" baseAuthorityName="Montagu" baseAuthorityYear="1808" class="Bivalvia" family="Lasaeidae" genus="Tellimya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Galeommatida" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="ferruginosa">
|
||
<emphasis id="19B425BB9B528BC9E0D286FA1FD461D3" italics="true">Tellimya ferruginosa</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="3E1C9627237C924D7C1EB560DE80DAA7" author="Montagu G" refId="B40" refString="Montagu G (1808) Supplement to Testacea Britannica. With additional plates. White, London / Woolmer, Exeter, v + 183 + [5] pp, pls 17 - 30 (post- 1 Oct.)." year="1808">Montagu, 1808</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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