Astarte elliptica

Astarte elliptica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Crassatelloidea
Family:	Astartidae
Genus:	Astarte
Species:	A. elliptica
Binomial name
Astarte elliptica (T. Brown, 1827)
Synonyms [1]
Crassina ellipticaT. Brown, 1827 [2] Crassina ovataT. Brown, 1829 [3] Astarte intermediaG. B. Sowerby II, 1855 [4] Astarte elongaHøpner Petersen, 2001 [5]

Astarte elliptica, or the "elliptical astarte", is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Astartidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Greenland to Massachusetts. ^[6]

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

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  Right valve
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  Left valve

References

1. Gofas, Serge (2004). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Astarte elliptica (Brown, 1827)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 24 October 2017.
2. Brown, Thomas (1827). "Plate XVIII". Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars. Fig. 3.
3. Brown, Thomas (October 1829). "Description of Five New British Species of Shells". The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science. 1: 1; Pl. 1, Figs. 8-9.
4. Sowerby, G. B. (1855). "Astarte intermedia". Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or, Monographs of Genera of Shells. Vol. 2. London: Sowerby. p. 779.
5. Høpner Petersen, G. (2001). "Astarte elonga n. sp. Holotype. ZMU-BIV-356". Studies on some Arctic and Baltic Astarte species (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience. Vol. 52. pp. 49–50. ISBN   978-87-635-1256-5.
6. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 41.