Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Venerida > Superfamily Glossoidea > Family Glossidae

Glossus Poli, 1795

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bucardia*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Buccardium*	Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811	synonym
*Isocardia*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym

Children

Glossus humanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

original description	Poli, J. X. (1795). Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Parma: Regio Typographeio. Vol. 2: i-xlix, [1-2], 75-264, pls 19-39.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Nicol D. (1951). Recent species of the cyrenoid pelecypod Glossus. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 41(4): 142-146.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Glossus Poli, 1795. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138034