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Anomiidae Rafinesque, 1815 
AphiaID: 214

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Anomioidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Anomioidea
Synonymised
taxa
  Heteranomiidae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Placunanomiinae Beu, 1967
Sources  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. [details]

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. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch dekschelpen  [details]
English saddle oysters  [details]
Swedish sadelostron  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Anomia Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Enigmonia Iredale, 1918
Genus Heteranomia Winckworth, 1922
Genus Isomonia Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
Genus Monia Gray, 1850
Genus Patro Gray, 1850
Genus Placunanomia Broderip, 1832
Genus Pododesmus Philippi, 1837
Genus Tedinia Gray, 1853

Genus Aenigma Koch, 1846 accepted as Enigmonia Iredale, 1918
Genus Fenestella Röding, 1798 accepted as Anomia Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Isonomia accepted as Isomonia Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
Genus Paranomia Conrad, 1860 accepted as Pododesmus Philippi, 1837
Subfamily Placunanomiinae Beu, 1967 accepted as Anomiidae Rafinesque, 1815
Genus Placunomia Swainson, 1840 accepted as Placunanomia Broderip, 1832
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2006-01-04 12:34:08Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-02-03 09:16:23Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2010-07-09 11:19:22Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Anomiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214 on 2013-06-19
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