North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

» Genus Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
» Genus Cytherea Lamarck, 1805 accepted as Meretrix Lamarck, 1799 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera] and Cytherea Röding, 1798)

Subfamily Petricolinae d'Orbigny, 1840

  » Genus Lajonkairia Deshayes, 1855
  » Genus Mysia Lamarck, 1818
  » Genus Petricola Lamarck, 1801
  » Genus Petricolaria Stoliczka, 1870
  » Genus Gastranella A. E. Verrill, 1872 accepted as Petricolaria Stoliczka, 1870 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  » Genus Lajonkairea Jukes-Browne, 1910 accepted as Lajonkairia Deshayes, 1855 (Unjustified emendation for Lajonkairia.)
  » Genus Lucinopsis Forbes & Hanley, 1848 accepted as Mysia Lamarck, 1818 (synonym)
  » Genus Rupellaria Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802 accepted as Petricola Lamarck, 1801

Subfamily Sunettinae Stoliczka, 1870

» Genus Sunetta Link, 1807
» Genus Cuneus Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 accepted as Sunetta Link, 1807 (invalid: junior homonym of Cuneus da Costa, 1778 [Donacidae])

Subfamily Tapetinae Gray, 1851

  » Genus Irus F. C. Schmidt, 1818
  » Genus Liocyma Dall, 1870
  » Genus Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
  » Genus Paphia Röding, 1798
  » Genus Paratapes Stoliczka, 1870
  » Genus Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900
  » Genus Ruditapes Chiamenti, 1900
  » Genus Tapes Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
  » Genus Venerupis Lamarck, 1818

Subfamily Turtoniinae Clark, 1855

» Genus Turtonia Alder, 1848

Subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815

  » Genus Antigona Schumacher, 1817
  » Genus Chamelea Mörch, 1853
  » Genus Circomphalus Mörch, 1853
  » Genus Clausinella Gray, 1851
  » Genus Globivenus Coen, 1934
  » Genus Lirophora Conrad, 1863
  » Genus Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817
  » Genus Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914
  » Genus Timoclea T. Brown, 1827
  » Genus Venus Linnaeus, 1758
  » Genus Pullastra G. B. Sowerby I, 1826 accepted as Venerupis Lamarck, 1818 (synonym)

Genus Arctoe Risso, 1826 accepted as Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Genus Arthemis Poli, 1791 accepted as Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Genus Chione Gray, 1838 accepted as Callista Poli, 1791 (Invalid: junior homonym of Chione Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 [Bivalvia])
Genus Cytherea Röding, 1798 accepted as Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera])
Genus Exoleta T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Genus Ortygia T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Chamelea Mörch, 1853 (invalid: junior homonym of Ortygia Boie, 1826 [Aves])
Genus Pectunculus da Costa, 1778 accepted as Dosinia (Pectunculus) da Costa, 1778 represented as Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Genus Pitaria Dall, 1902 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857 (unjustified emendation of Pitar)
Subfamily Pitarinae R. B. Stewart, 1930 accepted as Callocardiinae Dall, 1895

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=243 on 2023-09-26

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=243 on 2023-09-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2011-03-14 19:17:39Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150. [details]

basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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. [details]

additional source Jukes-Brown A.D. 1914. A synopsis of the family Veneridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 11(1): 58-74; 11(2): 75-94, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96204 [details]

additional source Chen, J.; Li, Q.; Kong, L.; Zheng, X. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of venus clams (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) with emphasis on the systematic position of taxa along the coast of mainland China. Zoologica Scripta. 40(3): 260-271. [details] Available for editors

additional source Glover, E. A.; Taylor, J. D. (2010). Needles and pins: acicular crystalline periostracal calcification in venerid bivalves (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 76(2): 157-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyp054 [details]

additional source Kappner, I.; Bieler, R. (2006). Phylogeny of venus clams (Bivalvia: Venerinae) as inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40(2): 317-331., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.006 [details] Available for editors

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. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
Dutch	venusschelpentapijtschelpenartemisschelpen	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To NHMUK collection (Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815; NHMUK:ecatalogue:8193742)
To The Arctic Traits Database (5 traits)
To ITIS


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