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

Poromya Forbes, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Embla Lovén, 1846 synonym

Children

Poromya granulata (Nyst & Westendorp, 1839)
Poromya tornata (Jeffreys, 1876)

Literature

original description

Forbes, E. 1844. Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1843): 130-193

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

Morton B. (1981). Prey capture in the carnivorous septibranch Poromya granulata (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyacea). Sarsia 66: 241-256.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Poromya Forbes, 1844. 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:138373

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Occurrence

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Environment


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2004-12-21 by Serge Gofas

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