Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Venerida > Superfamily Veneroidea > Family Veneridae > Subfamily Tapetinae > Genus Polititapes

Polititapes lucens (Locard, 1886)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tapes Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polititapes*	Chiamenti, 1900	accepted genus name
*Tapes (Polititapes)*	Chiamenti, 1900	synonym

Species group names

*Paphia lucens*	(Locard, 1886)	synonym
*Venerupis lucens*	(Locard, 1886)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Huber M. (2015). Compendium of Bivalves 2. A Full-Color Guide to the Remaining Seven Families. A Systematic Listing of 8,500 Bivalve Species and 10,500 Synonyms. ConchBooks, Harxheim, Germany,. 901 pp. + 1 CD-ROM (containing chapters 5 and 6.461) [Tellinidae by Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, pp. 167-297].
status source	Salvi, D. & Mariottini, P. (2012). Molecular phylogenetics in 2D: ITS2 rRNA evolution and sequence-structure barcode from Veneridae to Bivalvia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (2): 792-798.
identification resource	Micali, P. & Tisselli, M. (2016). Sulla separazione specifica tra Polititapes lucens (Locard, 1886) e P. aureus (Gmelin, 1791) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). Alleryana. 34 (1): 12-15.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polititapes lucens (Locard, 1886). 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:863038