Belcher's Venus
Tapes belcheri
- Water temperature23–30 °C
- Best monthsFebruary, March, and August
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 6 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 2 records
- August: 4 records
- September: 2 records
- October: 4 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 2 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 23–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Belcher's Venus
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- ヒメリュウキュウアサリ
- Simplified Chinese
- 硬殻淺蜊
Other scientific names: Tapes grata, Tapes obscurata, Tapes phenax, Tapes quadriradiata
Similar species
- Lettered carpet shell
Tapes literatus
- Comb Circe
Gafrarium pectinatum
- Camp pitar-venus
Lioconcha castrensis
- Reticulated venus
Periglypta reticulata
Scaled VenusAnomalodiscus squamosus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 52 open-data records from 1907 to 2012.
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