Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Galeommatida > Superfamily Galeommatoidea > Family Galeommatidae

Scintilla Deshayes, 1856

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Scintilla violescens Kuroda & Iw. Taki, 1961

Literature

original description	Deshayes, G. P. (1856). Sur le genre Scintilla. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1855) 23: 171-181.
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	Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Scintilla. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 19, pl. 1-6 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [Feb. 1874].
additional source	Sowerby, G. B. II. (1862). Monograph of the genus Scintilla. In: G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 3 (21): 175-182, pl. 234-235. London, privately published.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scintilla Deshayes, 1856. 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:204286