Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order [unassigned] Euheterodonta > Superfamily Solenoidea

Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cultellus Schumacher, 1817
Ensiculus H. Adams, 1860
Ensis Schumacher, 1817
Pharus Gray, 1840
Phaxas Leach in Gray, 1852
Sinupharus Cosel, 1993

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Swedish: knivmusslor

Literature

additional source

Cosel R. von (1993). The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic. Part 1: Solenidae and Pharidae I (Bivalvia: Solenacea). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 122 (Zilch Festschrift): 207-321

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). Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856. 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:23091

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2010-07-10 by Serge Gofas

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