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Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Mactrotoma Dall 1894
Genus recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Mactrotoma
Subgenus recognized by Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Alternative Names

Mactra subgen. Mactrotoma Dall 1894
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Mactrotoma subgen. Mactrotoma Dall 1894
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Mactra silicula Reeve 1854
Proparte synonym according to GBIF classification and GBIF classification
Mactra surinamensis van Regteren Altena 1968
Homotypic synonym according to GBIF classification (Originally found in sources as synonym of Mactrotoma janeiroensis (E.A.Smith, 1915))
Mactra subgen. Mactrotoma
Obsolete variant according to Paleobiology Database
Mactra subgen. Mactrotoma Dall 1894
Mactra subgen. Micromactra
Subjective synonym according to Paleobiology Database
Mactroderma
Subjective synonym according to Paleobiology Database
Mactrotoma subgen. Mactrotoma Dall 1894
Mactrotoma subgen. Micromactra
Subjective synonym according to Paleobiology Database
Micromactra
Subjective synonym according to Paleobiology Database

Common Names

English

surfclam preferred
Recognized by Paleobiology Database

Spanish; Castilian

Almeja (Costa Rica), almeja miona (Panamá). preferred
Recognized by INBio

Curated hierarchies for Mactrotoma Dall 1894

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms

Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Biota
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758
Autobranchia Grobben 1894
Heteroconchia J. E. Gray 1854
Euheterodonta Giribet & Distel 2003
Imparidentia Bieler, P. M. Mikkelsen & Giribet 2014
Venerida Gray 1854
Mactroidea Lamarck 1809
Mactridae Lamarck 1809
Mactrinae Lamarck 1809
Mactra Linnaeus 1767

GBIF classification

Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Venerida
Mactridae

World Register of Marine Species

Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Venerida
Mactridae