Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreoida > Superfamily Ostreoidea > Family Ostreidae > Subfamily Lophinae > Genus Dendostrea

Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dendostrea*	Swainson, 1835	accepted genus name
*Dendrostrea*		orthographic variant
*Dendrostrea*		synonym

Species group names

*Dendrostrea frons*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Ostrea frons*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
additional source	Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S.; Huber, M. (2014). Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420779