Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Arcida > Superfamily Arcoidea > Family Glycymerididae

Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Axinaea*	Poli, 1791	synonym

Children

Glycymeris arabica (H. Adams, 1871)
Glycymeris bimaculata (Poli, 1795)
Glycymeris concentrica (Dunker, 1853)
Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris nummaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Glycymeris rafaelmesai Nolf & Swinnen, 2013
Glycymeris scripta (Born, 1778)
Glycymeris stellata (Bruguière, 1789)
Glycymeris vanhengstumi Goud & Gulden, 2009

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bittersweet clams; dog cockles sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Samtmuscheln

Literature

original description	Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson).
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	Nicol, D. (1967). How to distinguish between Limopsis and Glycymeris. The Nautilus. 81(2): 45-46.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
status source	ICZN. (1986). Opinion 1414. Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 43 (3): 258-261.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Glycymeris da Costa, 1778. 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:138035