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Atlantic Great Piddock

Zirfaea crispata (Linnaeus 1758)

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body length

McClain Bivalve Sizes

42 mm

(max)
Shelled animal body mass

31 mm

(adult, single measurement)
Femorale

31 mm

(adult, single measurement)

body volume

Shelled animal body mass

3.24 cm^3

(adult, single measurement)
Literature body sizes, bivalves

47.9 cm^3

(average)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
hard substrate boring
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/hardSubstrateBoring

Definition: Organisms living in burrows bored into hard substrates such as rock, coral, or wood.

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extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database

5.333 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
pliocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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geographic distribution

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United States Species List
United States
URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001

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Skagerrak Species List
Skagerrak
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/2379

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Sea of Japan Species List
Sea Of Japan
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/4307

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North Sea Species List
North Sea
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/2350

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North Pacific Species List
North Pacific
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1908

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have ectoparasite

Global Biotic Interactions

Malacobdella grossa (Müller 1776) (leech nemertean)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database
pleistocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pleistocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

0.0117 million years ago

(min)

latitude

OBIS environmental data records

41.38 degrees

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

74.6491 degrees

(max)

longitude

OBIS environmental data records

-70.95 degrees

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

17.2331 degrees

(max)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
aragonite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52239

Definition: Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), aragonite structure

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motility

Paleobiology Database
sessile
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1759860

Definition: organisms that do not possess a means of self-locomotion and are normally immobile

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

16

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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shell height, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

41.5 mm

(max)

shell length, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

90 mm

(max)

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
suspension feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/suspensionFeeder

Definition: An organism which feeds on organisms and/or particles suspended in the water column.

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type specimen repository

iDigBio type specimen records
Harvard UNiversity, Museum of Comparative Zoology
URI: http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791

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water depth

OBIS environmental data records

25.6 m

(max)

water dissolved o2 concentration

OBIS environmental data records

6.373 mL/L

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

6.373 mL/L

(min)

water nitrate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

3.837 µmol/l

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

3.837 µmol/l

(min)

water o2 saturation

OBIS environmental data records

97.797 percent

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

97.797 percent

(max)

water phosphate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

0.44 µmol/l

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

0.44 µmol/l

(max)

water salinity

OBIS environmental data records

33.968 psu

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

33.968 psu

(max)

water silicate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

3.3 µmol/l

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

3.3 µmol/l

(max)

water temperature

OBIS environmental data records

9.382 degrees celsius

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

9.382 degrees celsius

(min)

wet body mass

Shelled animal body mass

5.67 g

(adult, single measurement)
Literature body sizes, bivalves

82.8 g

(average)