Cyamiomactra laminifera (E. Lamy, 1906)

Zettler, Michael L. & Bick, Andreas, 2025, Molluscs from a shallow bay of King George Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands): An annotated checklist with new distributional records, Zootaxa 5631 (3), pp. 401-450 : 416

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DAEBA84A-9441-407E-A2D2-C09070B266E6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15375687

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A58781-3C40-FFEA-FF7B-3DD5FE2DCBC2

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cyamiomactra laminifera (E. Lamy, 1906)
status

 

15. Cyamiomactra laminifera (E. Lamy, 1906) View in CoL [ Figs 8A–D View FIGURE 8 ]

Mactra (Heteromactra) laminifera E. Lamy, 1906: 45 , fig. 1

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 2.

Type locality. Island of Petermann in the Bellingshausen Sea.

Bathymetric distribution. 15–1281 m, but usually in shallower waters.

Substrate. Soft bottom.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Antarctic Peninsula, Ross Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Weddell See. SUBANTARCTICA: -. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

Remarks. This species can reach shell lengths of 10 to 19 mm. We found only a single specimen of 7.2 mm in length in a depth of 70 m. The species is already known from the Maxwell and Admiralty Bays.

References. Nicol (1966), Arnaud et al. (1986), Dell (1990), Rauschert (1991), Absher & Feijó (1998), Narchi et al. (2002), Aldea & Troncoso (2010a), Engl (2012), Huber (2015), Aldea et al. (2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Family

Cyamiidae

Genus

Cyamiomactra

Loc

Cyamiomactra laminifera (E. Lamy, 1906)

Zettler, Michael L. & Bick, Andreas 2025
2025
Loc

Mactra (Heteromactra) laminifera

E. Lamy 1906: 45
1906
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF