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

Parvamussium propinquum (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Amussium Herrmannsen, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Parvamussium*	Sacco, 1897	accepted genus name
*Amussium (Parvamussium)*	Sacco, 1897	synonym
*Amussium (Variamussium)*	Sacco, 1897	synonym

Species group names

*Amussium sublucidum*	Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897	synonym
*Propeamussium propinquum*	(E. A. Smith, 1885)	synonym

Literature

additional source	Schein E. (1989). Pectinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) bathyaux et abyssaux des campagnes Biogas (Golfe de Gascogne). Systématique et Biogéographie. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique 65 (2): 59-125
additional source	Dijkstra, H. H.; Gofas, S. (2004). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from some northeastern Atlantic seamounts. Sarsia. 89 (1): 33-78.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Parvamussium propinquum (E. A. Smith, 1885). 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:181288