Liocyma fluctuosum — Details

A very common benthic bivalve mollusk of arctic seas

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Periostracum yellowish-gray to greenish, shiny; Inside - white

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Distribution

Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary; lower North Shore.

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS) http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=2901

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Distribution

Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Arctic part], European waters (ERMS scope), North West Atlantic, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS) http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=2901
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 http://www.marinespecies.org/mollusca/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=1364
MEDIN (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN, version 1.0. http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149081
Miller, Roberta. 2011. The St. Anne de Bellevue Arctic Biological Station Collection In Museum collection database, Fisheries and Oceans Canada digital collections, Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Quebec http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=150285

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Physical Description

Type Information

Holotype for Liocyma fluctuosa brunnea Dall, 1902
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): Whiteaves
Locality: Canada, Gulf of St. Lawrence, North Atlantic Ocean

Holotype: Dall, W. 1902. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 26(1312): 378.

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Holotype for Liocyma viridis Dall, 1871
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): Rodgers
Locality: Alaska, United States, Arctic Ocean

Holotype: 1871. Am J Concology. 7(2): 146, pl. 14, fig. 8.

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Syntype for Liocyma beckii Dall, 1870
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): W. Dall
Locality: "Plover Bay, E. Siberia; Ounga Id., near Alaska" (Type Card), Siberia, Russia, Plover Bay, Bering Sea, North Pacific Ocean

Syntype: Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 13: 257.

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Syntype for Liocyma scammoni Dall, 1871
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): Scammon
Locality: Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada, North Pacific Ocean

Syntype: 1871. Am J Concology. 7(2): 142, pl. 16, fig. 3.

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Holotype for Liocyma aniwana Dall, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Locality: Sakhalin Id., Russia, Aniwa Bay, Sea of Okhotsk, North Pacific Ocean
Depth (m): 79 to 79
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Holotype: Smithson. Misc. Collns. 50(1727): 172.

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Holotype for Liocyma schefferi Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): V. Scheffer
Year Collected: 1937
Locality: Aleutians, Chuginadak Id., Alaska, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Depth (m): 18

Holotype: The Nautilus. 52(4): 111, pl. 8, fig. 1-1b.

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Ecology

Habitat

infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS) http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=2901

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Depth range based on 77 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 13 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 1.5 - 46874
  Temperature range (°C): -1.668 - 6.268
  Nitrate (umol/L): 0.959 - 22.429
  Salinity (PPS): 30.074 - 34.917
  Oxygen (ml/l): 6.228 - 8.575
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.186 - 2.051
  Silicate (umol/l): 2.533 - 49.447

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 1.5 - 46874

Temperature range (°C): -1.668 - 6.268

Nitrate (umol/L): 0.959 - 22.429

Salinity (PPS): 30.074 - 34.917

Oxygen (ml/l): 6.228 - 8.575

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.186 - 2.051

Silicate (umol/l): 2.533 - 49.447

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Source: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

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On different types of sediments from silty to sandy sediments, often with gravel or stones; Sublitoral mainly; Widespread boreal-arctic

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Trophic Strategy

Suspension feeder

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Wikipedia

Liocyma fluctuosa

Liocyma fluctuosa, or the wavy clam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Greenland to Maine, and along the Pacific coast, from Alaska to British Columbia.^[1]

References

^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Altantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 73.

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