Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreoida > Superfamily Ostreoidea > Family Ostreidae > Subfamily Lophinae

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Dendrostrea orthographic variant
Dendrostrea synonym

Children

Dendostrea crenulifera (Sowerby, 1871)
Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)

Literature

original description

Swainson W. 1835. The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp.

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.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2014). Dendostrea Swainson, 1835. 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:415280

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Last modified

2012-07-14 by Philippe Bouchet

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