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Mysella planata (Dall in Krause, 1885)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  family Lasaeidae »  genus Mysella

Scientific synonyms

Mysella moelleri (Posselt, 1898)

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Mysella planata

Author: Dall, W.H.

Mysella planata

Author: Aartsen, van

Taxon in country check-lists*

Arctic, Europe: Greenland

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Description

Mysella moelleri: Shell rather large for the group, ovate, white,covered by a profuse wrinkled yellow-brown papery periostracum; valves only moderately convex, inequilateral, the anterior part longer and more fully rounded, base convexly arcuate; beaks low, often eroded; teeth of moderate size, the anterior about three times as long as the other in the right valve; pallial scar rather wide and uneven, not sharply distinguished from the adductor scars; resilium short, stout, ventrally calcareous. Long. 6.4, alt. 4.8, diam. 3 mm.
Dall, W.H., 1899. Synopsis of the recent and tertiary Leptonacea of North America and the West Indies.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Mysella planata Krause, 1885]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Mysella moelleri (Posselt, 1898)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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