Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Verticordioidea

Lyonsiellidae Dall, 1895

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Policordiidae*	Scarlato, 1981	synonym

Children

Lyonsiella G.O. Sars, 1872
Policordia Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

Literature

original description	DALL, W.H. 1895a Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silix-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Part III. A new classification of the Pelecypoda. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, 3 (3) : 485-570.
basis of record	Poutiers, J.M. & F.R. Bernard. 1995. Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. In : P. BOUCHET (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 14. Mémoires Muséum national Histoire naturelle, 167 : 107-187.
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

Bouchet, P. (2014). Lyonsiellidae Dall, 1895. 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:405866