Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Lucinida > Superfamily Thyasiroidea > Family Thyasiridae > Genus Mendicula

Mendicula ferruginosa (Forbes, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Kellia W. Turton, 1822

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mendicula*	Iredale, 1924	accepted genus name
*Clausina*	Jeffreys, 1847	junior homonym
*Thyasira (Mendicula)*	Iredale, 1924	synonym

Species group names

*Axinus ferrugineus*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Thyasira ferruginea*	(Locard, 1886)	synonym
*Thyasira ferruginea*	Winckworth, 1932	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Oliver, P.G.; Killeen, I.J.; Ockelmann, K.W. (2002). The Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the British Continental Shelf and North Sea oil fields: an identification manual. Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIOMÔR Reports, 3. National Museums & Galleries of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 0-7200-0531-0. vi, 73 pp.
additional source	Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. Deep-Sea Research II 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012]
additional source	Marquet, R. (2005). The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium). Palaeontos. 6: 1-142, pls 1-62.
additional source	Kamenev G.M., Nadtochy V.A. (2000). Mendicula ferruginosa (Forbes, 1844) (Bivalvia, Thyasiridae) из дальневосточных морей России (= Mendicula ferruginosa (Forbes, 1844) (Bivalvia, Thyasiridae) of the Russian Far East seas). Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal. 10(2): 147-152.
additional source	Oliver P.G. (2015). Deep-water Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Oman Margin, Arabian Sea, new species and examples of endemism and cosmopolitanism. Zootaxa. 3995(1): 252-263.
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. Mendicula ferruginosa (Forbes, 1844). 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:152905