Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Cardiida > Superfamily Cardioidea > Family Cardiidae > Subfamily Lymnocardiinae > Tribe Adacnini

Didacna Eichwald, 1838

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Didacna baeri (Grimm, 1877)
Didacna parallella Bogachev, 1932
Didacna trigonoides (Pallas, 1771)

Literature

original description	Eichwald, E. (1838). Faunae Caspii Maris primitiae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 11(2): 125-174.
basis of record	Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
additional source	Bogutskaya, N.G.; Kijashko, P.V.; Naseka, A.M.; Orlova, M.I. (2013). Opredelitel' ryb i bespozvonochnykh Kaspiyskogo morya. T. 1. Ryby i mollyuski [ldentification keys for fish and invertebrates. Volume 1. Fish and molluscs]. КМК Scientific Press Ltd., St. Petersburg/Moscow. 543 pp., 56 pl. [In Russian].
subsequent type designation	Stoliczka, F. (1870-1871). The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent. In: T. Oldham, Paleontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Volume 3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxii, 1-537, pls 1-50 [pp. 1-222, pl. 1-12 - 1870; pp. i-xxii, 223—537, pl. 23-50 - 1871].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Didacna Eichwald, 1838. 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:381889