Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Adapedonta > Superfamily Solenoidea > Family Pharidae > Subfamily Cultellinae

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ensatella*	Swainson, 1840	synonym

Children

Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015
Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817
Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843)
Ensis siliqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: razor shell

Literature

original description	Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.
basis of record	Cosel R. von, 2009. The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic, part 2. Pharidae II: the genus Ensis Schumacher, 1817 (Bivalvia, Solenoidea). Basteria, 73: 9-56
additional source	Holme, N. A. (1951). The identification of British species of the genus Ensis Schumacher (Lamellibranchiata). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 29(3): 639-647.
additional source	Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ensis Schumacher, 1817. 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:138333