Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Arcoida > Superfamily Arcoidea > Family Glycymerididae

Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799 later homonym; nom. inval.
Axinaea Poli, 1791 synonym
Axinaea (Pectunculus) Lamarck, 1799 synonym
Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799 synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Glycymeris arabica (H. Adams, 1871)
Glycymeris bimaculata (Poli, 1795)
Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris livida (Reeve, 1843)
Glycymeris nummaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Glycymeris scripta (Born, 1778)
Glycymeris stellata (Bruguière, 1789)
Glycymeris vanhengstumi Goud & Gulden, 2009

Literature

basis of record

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213

redescription

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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

status source

ICZN 1986. Opinion 1414: Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 43(3): 258-261

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Glycymeris da Costa, 1778. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138035

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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Last modified

2011-12-26 by Philippe Bouchet

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