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

Dreissena van Beneden, 1835

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dreissensia*	P. Fischer, 1886	synonym

Children

Dreissena blanci Westerlund, 1890
Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897
Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)
Dreissena rostriformis (Deshayes, 1838)
Dreissena stankovici Lvova & Starobogatov, 1982

Literature

original description	van Beneden, P.J. (1835). Histoire naturelle et anatomique du Driessena [sic] polymorpha, genre nouveau dans la famille de mylilacées [sic]. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Bruxelles. 2(1): 25-26.
basis of record	Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J. P. (2010). Nomenclator of bivalve families; with a classification of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.
additional source	InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
additional source	Martens, E. von. (1868). Fernere Notizen ūber Dreissena. Der zoologische Garten. 9(3): 115-116.
additional source	Martens, E. von. (1868). Dreissena im Rhonegebiet. Der zoologische Garten. 9(6): 191-192.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dreissena van Beneden, 1835. 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:181565

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Dreissena van Beneden, 1835. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b75a6670-a7ea-4323-8270-903b22ec435a