Mulinia cleryana

Mulinia cleryana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Family:	Mactridae
Genus:	Mulinia
Species:	M. cleryana
Binomial name
	Mulinia cleryana; (d'Orbigny, 1846)[1]
Synonyms[1]
	Gnathodon cantrainei G. B. Sowerby II, 1873[2] ; Mactra carinulata Reeve, 1854[3] ; Mactra cleryana d'Orbigny, 1846[4] ; Mactra guadelupensis Récluz, 1852[5] ; Mulinia branneri Dall, 1901[6] ; Mulinia portoricensis Shuttleworth, 1856[7];

Mulinia cleryana is a species of medium-sized saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the western Atlantic Ocean as far south as Brazil.[8]

References

Rosenberg, Gary (2012). "Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
Sowerby, G. B., [II] (1873). "Monograph of the genus Gnathodon". Conchologia Iconica. Vol. 19. London: Reeve. Pl. 1, Species 3.
Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1854). "Monograph of the Genus Mactra". Conchologia Iconica. Vol. 8. London: Reeve. Pl. 10, Species 38.
d'Orbigny, Alcide (1846). "Lamellibranches". Mollusques. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale. Vol. 5. Paris: P. Bertrand. p. 510.
Reclúz, C. (1852). "Description de coquilles nouvelles". Journal de conchyliologie. 3: 249–250; Pl. 10, Figs. 4. {{cite journal}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Dall, William Healey (1901). "Results of the Branner–Agassiz Expedition to Brazil. V. Mollusks from the Vicinity of Pernambuco". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 3 (3): 145–146. JSTOR 24525820.
Shuttleworth, Robert James (1856). "Description de nouvelles espèces. Première décade; espèces nouvelles pour la faune des Antilles". Journal de conchyliologie. 5: 174–175.
Rosenberg, G. (2009). "Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)". Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

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