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

Vesicomya Dall, 1886

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Callocardia (Vesicomya)*	Dall, 1886	synonym

Children

Vesicomya atlantica (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Literature

additional source	Krylova, E. M.; Sahling, H.; Borowski, C. (2018). Resolving the status of the families Vesicomyidae and Kelliellidae (Bivalvia: Venerida), with notes on their ecology. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 84(1): 69–91.
additional source	Krylova E.M., Kamenev G.M., Vladychenskaya I.P. & Petrov N.B. (2015). Vesicomyinae (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and adjacent abyssal regions. Deep-Sea Research II. 111: 198-209.
additional source	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
additional source	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	Smith, E. A. (1900). Note on the genera Callocardia and Vesicomya. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 81-83.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vesicomya Dall, 1886. 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:138657