Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Archiheterodonta > Order Carditoida > Superfamily Crassatelloidea > Family Astartidae

Astarte J. de C. Sowerby, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crassina*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Nicania*	Leach, 1819	synonym
*Tridonta*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym

Children

Astarte acuticostata Friele, 1877
Astarte arctica (Gray, 1824)
Astarte belti Høpner Petersen, 2001
Astarte borealis (Schumacher, 1817)
Astarte crebricostata McAndrew & Forbes, 1847
Astarte crenata (Gray, 1824)
Astarte elliptica (Brown, 1827)
Astarte falsteri Høpner Petersen, 2001
Astarte fusca (Poli, 1791)
Astarte lutea Perkins, 1869
Astarte montagui (Dillwyn, 1817)
Astarte sericea Posselt, 1895
Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854
Astarte sulcata (da Costa, 1778)
Astarte warhami Hancock, 1846

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): astarteskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: astarteskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: astarteskjell

Norwegian Nynorsk: astarteskjel

Nynorsk (Norwegian): astarteskjel

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
additional source	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

Genbank

External Links

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Astarte. 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:137683