Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculanida > Superfamily Nuculanoidea > Family Malletiidae

Malletia Desmoulins, 1832

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Malletia (Pseudomalletia)*	P. Fischer, 1886	synonym
*Pseudomalletia*	P. Fischer, 1886	synonym

Children

Malletia johnsoni A. H. Clarke, 1961
Malletia pianii (van Aartsen & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1991)

Literature

original description	Desmoulins C. (1832). Description d'une nouveau genre de coquille vivant, bivalve, des mers du Chile. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 5 (26): 83-92 [febbraio]
basis of record	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.
additional source	Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 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. Malletia Desmoulins, 1832. 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:151906