Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinida > Superfamily Pectinoidea > Family Propeamussiidae

Parvamussium Sacco, 1897

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amussium (Parvamussium)*	Sacco, 1897	synonym
*Amussium (Variamussium)*	Sacco, 1897	synonym

Children

Parvamussium fenestratum (Forbes, 1844)
Parvamussium intuslaeve Dijkstra & Gofas, 2004
Parvamussium permirum (Dautzenberg, 1925)
Parvamussium propinquum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Parvamussium siebenrocki (Sturany, 1899)

Literature

basis of record	Dijkstra, H. H. (1995). Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 9-73.
additional source	Sacco, F. (1897). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXIV. (Pectinidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 116 pp., 21 pl.
redescription	Dijkstra, H. H. (2013). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica. 10: 1-108 [6 April 2013].
ecology source	Hicks, G.R.F. & B.A. Marshall. (1985). Sex selective predation of deep-sea, meiobenthic copepods by pectinacean bivalves and its influence on copepod sex ratios. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 19(2):227-231, tabs. 1-2. (1-viii-1985)

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Parvamussium Sacco, 1897. 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:181286