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

Protocuspidaria J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Edentaria*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym
*Protocuspidaria (Bidentaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym; alternate representation
*Protocuspidaria (Edentaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym; alternate representation
*Protocuspidaria (Protocuspidaria)*	J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Protocuspidaria atlantica J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981
Protocuspidaria azorica (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Protocuspidaria colpodes (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
Protocuspidaria ruginosa (Jeffreys, 1882)
Protocuspidaria simplis J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981
Protocuspidaria verityi J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981

Literature

original description	Allen J. A. & Morgan R. E. (1981). The functional morphology of Atlantic deep water species of the families Cuspidariidae and Poromyidae (Bivalvia): an analysis of the evolution of the septibranch condition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 294: 413-546
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Protocuspidaria J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981. 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:137861