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Barnea candida

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Barnea candida
Temporal range: Holocene to Present
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Superfamily: Pholadoidea
Family: Pholadidae
Genus: Barnea
Species:
B. candida
Binomial name
Barnea candida
Synonyms
  • Barnea spinosa Risso, 1826
  • Pholas candidus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pholas candidus cylindracea J. T. Marshall, 1914
  • Pholas candidus var. subovata Jeffreys, 1865
  • Pholas costulata Goodall, 1890
  • Pholas cylindricus J. Sowerby, 1818
  • Pholas papyraceus Spengler, 1792
  • Pholas silicula Lamarck, 1818

Barnea candida is a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pholadidae.

Description

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  • Length: up to 50 mm
  • Width: up to 20 mm.

Colour

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Chalk-white, yellow-white or grey.

Fossil

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Barnea candida is common in the North Sea region in deposits from the Holocene, the Eemian Stage and late Middle Pleistocene.

References

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  • (in Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, 1991. Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij Stichting Uitgevrij KNNV, 165 pag.
  • (in Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, 2004. Veldgids Schelpen. KNNV Uitgeverij, ISBN 90-5011-140-8, 234 pag.
  • (in Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, Bank, R.A., Adema, J.P.H.M. & Perk, F.A., 1994. Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en België. Feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestigjarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. Backhuys, Leiden. 149 pp. ISBN 90-73348-33-1
  • (in Dutch) Janssen, A.W., Peeters, G.A. & Slik, L. van der, 1984. De fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse stranden en zeegaten, tweede serie, 8 (slot). Basteria, 48: 89-220.
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