Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinida > Superfamily Anomioidea > Family Anomiidae > Genus Heteranomia

Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Anomia Fieber, 1866

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heteranomia*	Winckworth, 1922	accepted genus name
*Heteranomia squamula*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	taxonomically included in

Species group names

*Anomia aculeata*	O. F. Müller, 1776	synonym
*Anomia aculeata var. hirta*	Dautzenberg, 1898	synonym
*Anomia cucullata*	Bruguière, 1789	synonym
*Anomia cylindrica*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Anomia cymbiformis*	Maton & Rackett, 1807	synonym
*Anomia flexuosa*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Anomia lens*	Lamarck, 1819	synonym
*Anomia membranacea*	Lamarck, 1819	synonym
*Anomia rugosa*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Anomia spinosa*	Reeve, 1859	synonym
*Anomia tubularis*	W. Turton, 1822	synonym
*Monia cladocorae*	Parenzan, 1974	synonym
*Pododesmus aculeatus*	(O. F. Müller, 1776)	synonym
*Pododesmus squamula*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: lille sadelmusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: schilferige dekschelp

English: prickly jingle; smallest saddle oyster sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kleine Sattelmuschel

Literature

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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
identification resource	Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:138749