Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Thracioidea > Family Thraciidae > Genus Thracia

Thracia phaseolina (Lamarck, 1818)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Amphidesma Lamarck, 1818

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thracia*	Blainville, 1824	accepted genus name
*Thracia (Thracia)*	Blainville, 1824	synonym

Species group names

*Tellina papyracea*	Poli, 1791	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Tellimya fontemaggii*	A. Conti, 1864	synonym
*Thracia mitella*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Thracia papyracea*	(Poli, 1791)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: kidneybean thracia; paper thracia 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: Schlanke Spatelmuschel; Weiße Bohne

Literature

basis of record	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	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.
additional source	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
additional source	Sartori, A. F. & Ball, A. D. 2009. Morphology and Postlarval Development of the Ligament of Thracia phaseolina (Bivalvia: Thraciidae), with a Discussion of Model Choice in Allometric Studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75: 295-304.
additional source	Couthouy, J. P. (1839). Monograph on the family Osteodesmacea of Deshayes, with remarks on two species of Patelloidea, and descriptions of new species of marine shells, a species of Anculotus, and one of Eolis. Boston Journal of Natural History. 2(2): 129-189.
identification resource	Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Thracia phaseolina (Lamarck, 1818). 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:152378