Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Dreissenoidea > Family Dreissenidae > Subfamily Dreisseninae > Genus Dreissena

Dreissena rostriformis (Deshayes, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dreissena*	van Beneden, 1835	accepted genus name
*Dreissensia*	P. Fischer, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Mytilus rostriformis*	Deshayes, 1838	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Wenz, W. (1942). Die Mollusken des Pliozäns der rumänischen Erdöl-Gebiete als Leitversteinerungen für die Aufschluß-Arbeiten. Senckenbergiana. 24: 1-293.
basis of record	Orlova, M.I.; Telesh, I.V.; Berezina, N.A.; Antsulevich, A.E.; Maximov, A.A.; Litvinchuk, L.F. (2006). Effects of nonindigenous species on diversity and community functioning in the eastern Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea). Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 98-105.
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.