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

Basterotiidae Cossmann, 1909

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Atopomya P. G. Oliver, 2013
Basterotia M. Hörnes, 1859
Basterotina Coan, 1999
Physoida Pallary, 1900
Saxicavella P. Fischer, 1878

Literature

original description	Cossmann M. & Peyrot A. (1909). Conchologie néogénique de l'Aquitaine. Pélécypodes. 2 volumes. Bordeaux: A. Saugnac. Published in parallel in Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. [Publication dates after Lozouet & Lesport, 1994, Cossmanniana 3(1): 9–12]. Tome 1: pp. 1–220, pls 1–7 [18 December 1909]; = Actes, 63(2): 72–144, pls 1–4 [October 5, 1909]; Actes, 63(3): 145–232, pls 5–7 [13 November 1909]; Actes, 63(4): 233–293 [18 December 1909].
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	Oliver, P. G. (2013). Description of Atopomya dolobrata gen. et sp. nov.: First record of bacterial symbiosis in the Saxicavellinae (Bivalvia). Journal of Conchology. 41(3): 359-367.
redescription	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.
taxonomy source	Goto, R.; Kawakita, A.; Ishikawa, H.; Hamamura, Y.; Kato, M. (2012). Molecular phylogeny of the bivalve superfamily Galeommatoidea (Heterodonta, Veneroida) reveals dynamic evolution of symbiotic lifestyle and interphylum host switching. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1): 172.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Basterotiidae Cossmann, 1909. 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:489090