Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Cuspidarioidea > Family Protocuspidariidae > Genus Protocuspidaria

Protocuspidaria ruginosa (Jeffreys, 1882)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Protocuspidaria*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	accepted genus name
*Edentaria*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym
*Protocuspidaria (Bidentaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym
*Protocuspidaria (Edentaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym
*Protocuspidaria (Protocuspidaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym

Species group names

*Neaera ruginosa*	Jeffreys, 1882	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Poutiers, J. M.; Bernard, F. R. (1995). Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 107-187.
additional source	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
new combination reference	Krylova, E. M. 1995. Dvustvorchatye molliuski semeistva Protocuspidariidae (Septibranchia, Cuspidarioidea): Sostav i osobennosti resprostraneniia. [Clams of the family Protocuspidariidae (Septibranchia, Cuspidarioidea): taxonomy and distribution]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 74: 20-38.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Protocuspidaria ruginosa (Jeffreys, 1882). 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:406449