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

Planktomya Simroth, 1896

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nesis*	Locard, 1899	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Monterosatus*	Beu, 1971	synonym

Children

Planktomya nilae van Aartsen & Engl, 2001
Planktomya prima (Locard, 1899)
Planktomya vanderlindeni van Aartsen & Engl, 2001

Literature

original description	Simroth, H. (1896). Die Acephalen der Plankton Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. 2(6), 44 p, 2 pl., 1 map. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig.
basis of record	Gofas, S. (2000). Systematics of Planktomya, a bivalve genus with teleplanic larval dispersal. Bulletin of Marine Science. 67 (3): 1013-1023.
additional source	Moore D.R. (1983). The little bivalve Planktomya unmasked. Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Punta Betín. 13: 123-132.
additional source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Planktomya Simroth, 1896. 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:181331