ID: 131663
pID: 131662
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Jiří Novák
Created: 2005-11-08 20:15:17 - User Jiří Novák
Last change: 2019-06-26 10:42:36 - User Jan Delsing
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id131663/ Text function: [[t:131663;<em>Acharax johnsoni</em>]]
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id131663/"><em>Acharax johnsoni</em></a>
Scientific synonyms
Solemya johnsoni W. H. Dall, 1891 Solemya tibai T. Kuroda, 1948
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 83181
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2016-04-26 20:06:40 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
A large, deep-water species with a chalky, friable shell and thick tan to black periostracum, which has long posterior projections. The ligament is external and projecting. Length to 150 mm.
Rarely taken alive, this species is frequently found in compact clay substrata that are difficult to sample, but in the right locations hundreds of dead specimens, consisting mostly of periostracum, may be taken in a dredge haul.
Source: Coan, E. et al., 2000. Bivalve Seashells of Western North America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California.
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 83182
Text Type: 3
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Created: 2016-04-26 20:07:34 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Sitka, Alaska (57.1 °N) [NMC], to the Golfo de California and south to near Isla de Afuera, Perú (6.7°S) [LACM], in 400-4,100 m; also in the western Pacific off Mys Olyutorsky (60°N). Common in the diet of Anoplopoma, the sablefish. Reported as early as the Pliocene in the eastern Pacific and the Asian Miocene.
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