Plicatula gibbosa

Plicatula gibbosa
Museum specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Superfamily:	Plicatuloidea
Family:	Plicatulidae
Genus:	Plicatula
Species:	P. gibbosa
Binomial name
Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms
List Plicatula barbadensisd'Orbigny, 1846 Plicatula caribbeanaWeisbord, 1964 Plicatula cristataLamarck, 1819 Plicatula mesembrinaDall, 1925 Plicatula ramosaLamarck, 1819 Plicatula reniformisLamarck, 1819 Plicatula spondyloideaMeuschen Arango & Molina, 1878 Plicatula venezuelanaWeisbord, 1964 Plicatula vexillataGuppy, 1874

Plicatula gibbosa, commonly known as the Atlantic kitten's paw, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Plicatulidae.

Description

The shell attains a maximum size of 38.6 millimetres (1.52 in).

Left valve

Distribution

It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to the West Indies. ^[1]

References

1. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 34.

• Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
• Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
• Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
• Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

External links

• Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp
• Lamarck (J.-B. M.) de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 6(1): vi + 343 pp. Paris: published by the author.