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

Glycymerididae Dall, 1908 (1847)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Glycymeris da Costa, 1778
Tucetona Iredale, 1931

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: marmerschelpen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: dog cockles sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English-United States: dog cockles

Literature

additional source

Nicol D. 1945. Genera and subgenera of the pelecypod family Glycymeridae Journal of Paleontology 19: 616-621

additional source

Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.

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.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Glycymerididae Dall, 1908 (1847). 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:209

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2010-07-09 by Serge Gofas

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