Cyanocyclas brasiliana (Bivalvia: Cyrenidae) rediscovered in the limnic part of Parnaíba River delta, Northeast Brazil

By

Brito, Carla Suzy Freire De
Mansur, Maria Cristina Dreher
Rocha-Barreira, Cristina De Almeida

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-6-20

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

1685--5

Subjects

Cyrenidae , Ecology , native species , Northeast Brazil , Piauí

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1685

 

Abstract

Cyanocyclas brasiliana (Deshayes, 1854) known only from the original very short description and reported from Pará state was recently rediscovered. This is the first occurrence of a native species of Cyrenidae (formerly Corbiculidae) in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Due to a lack of previous data C. brasiliana was initially confused with Corbicula largillierti (Philippi, 1844), an invasive species of Asian origin, which was introduced in South America in the 1970s and already recorded from the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Ecological aspects are described. To aid identification, type material was studied.