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

Calyptogena Dall, 1891

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: シロウリガイ属

Literature

original description	Dall, W. H. (1891). On some new or interesting west American shells obtained from the dredgings of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross in 1888, and from other sources. Proceedings of the US National Museum. 14: 173-191, pls 5-7.
additional source	Saether, K. P., Sha Jingeng, Little, C. T. S. & Campbell, K. A. (2016). New records and a new species of bivalve (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North island, New Zealand. Zootaxa 4154: 1-26.
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	Krylova, E. M.; Sahling, H. (2006). Recent bivalve molluscs of the genus Calyptogena (Vesicomyidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 72: 359-395.
additional source	Amano, K.; Hamuro, T.; Hamuro, M.; Fujii, S. (2001). The Oldest Vesicomyid Bivalves from the Japan Sea Borderland. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 60 (3): 189-198.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Calyptogena Dall, 1891. 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:367971