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

Rhinoclama nitens (Locard, 1898)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhinoclama*	Dall & E. A. Smith, 1886	accepted genus name
*Cuspidaria (Rhinoclama)*	Dall & E. A. Smith, 1886	synonym
*Leiomya (Rhinoclama)*	Dall & E. A. Smith, 1886	synonym
*Rhinoclama (Rhinoclama)*	Dall & E. A. Smith, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Cuspidaria nitens*	Locard, 1898	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.
basis of record	Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. Invertebrate Zoology. 11 (1): 43–82 [in English].
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rhinoclama nitens (Locard, 1898). 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:408122