Mulinia cleryana

Mulinia cleryana is a species of medium-sized saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the western Atlantic Ocean as far south as Brazil.[8]

Mulinia cleryana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Venerida
Family:	Mactridae
Genus:	Mulinia
Species:	M. cleryana
Binomial name
Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)[1]
Synonyms[1]
Gnathodon cantrainei G. B. Sowerby II, 1873[2] Mactra carinulata Reeve, 1854[3] Mactra cleryana d'Orbigny, 1846[4] Mactra guadelupensis Récluz, 1852[5] Mulinia branneri Dall, 1901[6] Mulinia portoricensis Shuttleworth, 1856[7]

References

1. Rosenberg, Gary (2012). "Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
2. Sowerby, G. B., [II] (1873). "Monograph of the genus Gnathodon". Conchologia Iconica. 19. London: Reeve. Pl. 1, Species 3.
3. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1854). "Monograph of the Genus Mactra". Conchologia Iconica. 8. London: Reeve. Pl. 10, Species 38.
4. d'Orbigny, Alcide (1846). "Lamellibranches". Mollusques. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale. 5. Paris: P. Bertrand. p. 510.
5. Reclúz, C. (1852). "Description de coquilles nouvelles". Journal de conchyliologie. 3: 249–250; Pl. 10, Figs. 4.
6. Dall, William Healey (1901). "Results of the Branner–Agassiz Expedition to Brazil. V. Mollusks from the Vicinity of Pernambuco". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 3 (3): 145–146. JSTOR 24525820.
7. Shuttleworth, Robert James (1856). "Description de nouvelles espèces. Première décade; espèces nouvelles pour la faune des Antilles". Journal de conchyliologie. 5: 174–175.
8. Rosenberg, G. (2009). "Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)". Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences. Retrieved 17 April 2018.