Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Adapedonta > Superfamily Hiatelloidea > Family Hiatellidae > Genus Hiatella

Hiatella rugosa (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hiatella*	Bosc, 1801	accepted genus name
*Byssomia*	Say, 1818	orthographic variant
*Byssomya*	Oken, 1817	orthographic variant
*Biapholius*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Didonta*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Rhomboides*	Blainville, 1824	synonym
*Saxicava*	Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802	synonym

Species group names

*Hiatella gallicana*	(Lamarck, 1818)	synonym
*Rhomboides rugosus*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Saxicava irregularis*	Brusina, 1870	synonym
*Saxicava rugosa*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Saxicava rugosa var. transversa*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: rotsboorder; ruwe rotsboorder sources: Vanwalleghem, R. (1983). Mollusks in the bycatch of Ostend fishermen [Mollusken in de bijvangsten van Oostendse vissers]. De Strandvlo 3(4): 89-91;Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: common rock borer 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: Gemeiner Felsenbohrer

Literature

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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hiatella rugosa (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:140104