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Chavania erythraea (Issel, 1869)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  order Lucinida »  family Lucinidae »  genus Chavania

Scientific synonyms

Phacoides malcolmensis Melvill, 1918

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Chavania erythraea

Author: Melvill

Chavania erythraea

Author: Rusmore-Villaume, M.L.

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Description

As Phacoides malcolmensis:
testa parva, fere rotunda, alba, aretissirae concentriee lamellata, lamellis paullulum flexuosis, hic illic irregularibus, supra, juxta et infra umbones sub lente minutissirae decussatis, umbonibus prominulis contiguis, parvis, antice paullum excavata, deinde rotundata, postice recte, declivi marginem apud dorsalem, dentibus normalibus.
Long. 9,25, lat. 10 mm. (sp. maj.).
Bab. Persian Gulf, Malcolm Inlet, 35 fathoms. A small white species with a fugitive light olive epidermis, very closely lamellate throughout. Only two or three examples were dredged, and it is possible it may attain slightly larger dimensions, as we are not certain of these being adult.
Melvill, J. C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend.
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 Chavania erythraea Issel, 1869]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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