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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: : Glycymeridoidea: Glycymerididae

Glycymeris longior (Sowerby I, 1833)


Range: 10°S to 42°S; 64°W to 40.5°W
Depth: 10 to 75 m
Maximum Reported Size: 35  mm

Synonymy

Pectunculus longior Sowerby I, 1833
Glycymeris diaphora Dall, 1916

Details


Pectunculus longior Sowerby I in Broderip & Sowerby, 1833b, p. 196, not figured
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Rio de Janeiro, ad littora Brasiliae
Range: 10°S to 42°S; 64°W to 40.5°W
Depth: 10 to 75 m
Maximum Reported Size: 35 mm
Distribution: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro
References: Sowerby (1833) M; d'Orbigny (1846)

Glycymeris diaphora Dall, 1916, 
[Synonym]
Distribution: Uruguay


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1833. [The collection of Shells formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 194-202. [True date: 13 Mar 1833.]

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