Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Venerida > Superfamily Glossoidea

Vesicomyidae Dall & C. T. Simpson, 1901

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Pliocardiinae Woodring, 1925
Vesicomyinae Dall & C. T. Simpson, 1901

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オトヒメハマグリ科

Literature

original description	Dall, W. H. & Simpson, C. T. (1901). The Mollusca of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 20: 351-524, pl. 54-58.
basis of record	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	Krylova, E. M.; Sahling, H.; Borowski, C. (2018). Resolving the status of the families Vesicomyidae and Kelliellidae (Bivalvia: Venerida), with notes on their ecology. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 84(1): 69–91.
additional source	Krylova E.M. & Sahling H. (2010) Vesicomyidae (Bivalvia): Current Taxonomy and Distribution. PLoS ONE 5(4): e9957. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009957 [online-only publication]
additional source	Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. (2012). Bivalves of the family Vesicomyidae from the Neogene Mediterranean basin (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 141( 1): 87–113.
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	Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.; Collins, T. M.; Glover, E. A.; González, V. L.; Graf, D. L.; Harper, E. M.; Healy, J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Sharma, P. P.; Staubach, S.; Strong, E. E.; Taylor, J. D.; Tëmkin, I.; Zardus, J. D.; Clark, S.; Guzmán, A.; McIntyre, E.; Sharp, P.; Giribet, G. (2014). Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics. 28(1): 32-115.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vesicomyidae Dall & C. T. Simpson, 1901. 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:23140