Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Adapedonta > Superfamily Solenoidea > Family Pharidae > Subfamily Cultellinae > Genus Ensis

Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ensis*	Schumacher, 1817	accepted genus name
*Ensatella*	Swainson, 1840	synonym

Literature

original description	Vierna, J.; Jensen, K. T.; González-Tizón, A. M.; Martínez-Lage, A. (2012). Population genetic analysis of Ensis directus unveils high genetic variation in the introduced range and reveals a new species from the NW Atlantic. Marine Biology. 159(10): 2209–2227.
additional source	Vierna, J.; Cuperus, J.; Martínez-Lage, A.; Jansen, J. M.; Perina, A.; Van Pelt, H.; González-Tizón, A. M. (2014 ["2013"]). Species delimitation and DNA barcoding of Atlantic Ensis (Bivalvia, Pharidae). Zoologica Scripta. 43(2): 161-171.
additional source	Gunnarsson, K.; Sveinsson, S.; Gíslason, D.; Malmquist, H.; Micael, J.; Gíslason, S. (2023). Mollusc on the move; First record of the Newfoundland's razor clam, Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012 (Mollusca; Pharidae) outside its native range. BioInvasions Records. 12(3): 765-774.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012. 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:701645