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

Spisula J. E. Gray, 1837

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hemimactra*	Swainson, 1840	synonym
*Spisula (Hemimactra)*	Swainson, 1840	synonym; alternate representation
*Spisula (Spisula)*	J. E. Gray, 1837	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Spisula elliptica (T. Brown, 1827)
Spisula solida (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spisula subtruncata (da Costa, 1778)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: surf clams; surfclams; trough shells 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: Trogmuscheln 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.

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

Norwegian Nynorsk: trauskjel

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1837). A synoptical catalogue of the species of certain tribes or genera of shells contained in the collection of the British Museum and the author's cabinet. Magazine of Natural History, N.S. 1: 370-376.
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.
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.
additional source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Spisula J. E. Gray, 1837. 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:138159