Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Sphaeriida > Superfamily Sphaerioidea

Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Pisidiidae*	Gray, 1857	synonym

Children

Musculium Link, 1807
Pisidium C. Pfeiffer, 1821
Sphaeriinae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: orb mussels; orb shells; sphere shells sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kugelmuscheln sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: ärtmusslor

Literature

original description	Deshayes, G. P. (1853-1855). Catalogue of the Conchifera or bivalve shells in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, Part I. Cyprinidae, Veneridae and Glauconomidae, pp. ii + 216 pp. [introduction by J. E. Gray] [27 June 1853]; Part II, Petricoladae (concluded), Corbiculadae, pp. 217-292 [title page dated "1854"; 12 May 1855].
basis of record	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.
additional source	Korniushin, A.V. (1996). Bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pisidioidea in the Palaearctic region. Fauna, systematics, phylogeny, 176 pp. [in Russian]. [20 June]. Kiev (National Academy of Science of Ukraine – Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology).
additional source	Bartsch, P. (1944). Taxonomic headaches. The Nautilus. 57(4): 116-118 [April].
additional source	Mackie, G. L. (2007). Biology of freshwater corbiculid and sphaeriid clams of North America. Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series. 15 (3: i-ix): 1-436.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). 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:489101

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e8701abd-de5a-475d-b66b-93d251e8035e