Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Clavagelloidea

Clavagellidae A. d'Orbigny, 1844

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bryopa Gray, 1847
Clavagella Blainville, 1817

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ハマユウガイ科

Literature

original description	Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1844-1848). Paléontologie française. Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux Mollusques et Rayonnés fossiles de France. Terrains crétacés. Volume 3. Pelecypoda. 807 pp, Victor Masson, Paris (1-288 [1844]; 289-480 [1845]; 481-512 [1846]; 513-688 [1847]; 689-807 [1848]).
basis of record	Morton, B. & Machado, F.M. (2021). The origins, relationships, evolution and conservation of the weirdest marine bivalves: The watering pot shells. A review. Advances in Marine Biology. 88: 137-220.
additional source	Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.
additional source	Morton, B. (2007). The evolution of the watering pot shells (Bivalvia, Anomalodesmata: Clavagellidae and Penicillidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 24 (1): 19-64.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Clavagellidae A. d'Orbigny, 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:23006