Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Myoida > Superfamily Pholadoidea > Family Pholadidae > Subfamily Xylophaginae

Xylophaga Turton, 1822

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xylophaga anselli Harvey, 1996
Xylophaga atlantica H. G. Richards, 1942
Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton, 1819)
Xylophaga gagei Harvey, 1996
Xylophaga nidarosiensis Santhakumaran, 1980
Xylophaga noradi Santhakumaran, 1980
Xylophaga praestans E. A. Smith, 1903
Xylophaga ricei Harvey, 1996

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): treboreskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: treboreskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: treboreskjell

Norwegian Nynorsk: treboreskjel

Nynorsk (Norwegian): treboreskjel

Literature

additional source	Knudsen J. (1961). The bathyal and abyssal Xylophaga (Pholadidae, Bivalvia). Galathea Reports, 5: 163-209
additional source	Turner R.D. (2002) On the subfamily Xylophagainae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157(4): 223-307.
additional source	Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161-254.
additional source	Harvey R. (1996). Deep water Xylophagaidae (Pelecypoda: Pholadacea) from the North Atlantic with description of three new species.. Journal of Conchology 35(6): 473-481
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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Xylophaga Turton, 1822. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138667