A Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China

F.R. Bernard, Ying-Ya Cai, Brian Morton

Publication Year: 1993

This is a comprehensive catalogue of the living marine Bivalvia of China. Over 1,140 species are arranged in systematic order reflecting the phylogenetic relationships of the supraspecific taxa, together with almost 3,500 binomina which fall into synonymy.

Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU

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Abstract

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Preface

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In 1988, I received a letter from Frank Bernard asking if I could organize publication of a Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China that he had drafted in co-operation with Professor Y.Y. Cai. I replied that I would certainly try, either as a special publication with Hong Kong University Press or as an issue...

Introduction

Interest in the marine Mollusca, both as useful products, and as objects of beauty and intellectual speculation, probably has a longer continuous history in China than elsewhere. Significant attention to bivalves occurs in the encyclopaedias published in China in the early eighteenth century, and manuals on the culture of bivalves are known from the Ming Dynasty (est. 1470 AD). The Chinese marine fauna has received much attention from...

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The Classification summarizes the systematic arrangement of the supraspecific taxa and serves as a general guide and index to the Systematic Catalogue that follows. The arrangement reflects inferred phylogenetic relationships based on the current concepts of systematic relationships within the Bivalvia. The arrangement used here is based...

Biogeography

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The territorial waters of China have a complex biogeography, involving the intermixing of temperate and tropical species, as well as relict sub-boreal species. The physical geography and dominant oceanic currents interplay to increase this complexity so that the provinciality of the Chinese mainland coast is separated...

E-ISBN-13: 9789882200555
Print-ISBN-13: 9789622093249

Page Count: 160
Publication Year: 1993