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Hiatellidae Gray, 1824 
AphiaID: 251

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > [unassigned] Euheterodonta (Order) > Hiatelloidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Hiatelloidea
Synonymised
taxa
  Panopeidae Bronn, 1862
Pholeobiidae Leach, 1852
Saxicavellinae P. H. Scott, 1994
Saxicavidae Swainson, 1835
Sources  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: Yonge C.M. 1971. On functional morphology and adaptive radiation in the bivalve superfamily Saxicavacea (Hiatella (=Saxicava), Saxicavella, Panomya, Panope, Cyrtodaria). Malacologia 11(1): 1-44, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13093516 [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 rotsboorders  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801
Genus Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Panomya Gray, 1857
Genus Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Saxicavella P. Fischer, 1878

Subfamily Saxicavellinae P. H. Scott, 1994 represented as Hiatellidae Gray, 1824 (alternate representation)

Genus Agina Turton, 1822 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Biapholius Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Byssomia Say, 1818 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Byssomya Oken, 1817 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Byssonia Blainville, 1817 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Capistrocardia Tate, 1887 accepted as Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Chaenopaea Mayer, 1884 accepted as Panomya Gray, 1857
Genus Coramya Brown, 1844 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Didonta Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Glycimeris Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801
Genus Heteromya Mayer-Eymar, 1884 accepted as Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Myopsis Agassiz, 1840 accepted as Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Panopaea accepted as Panopea Ménard, 1807
Genus Pholeobia Blainville, 1819 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Saxicava Fleurau-Bellevue, 1802 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Spongyophylla Brusina, 1866 accepted as Hiatella Bosc, 1801
Genus Turneria Glibert & van de Poel, 1966 accepted as Saxicavella P. Fischer, 1878
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
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To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:251
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2012-01-04 17:55:52Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Hiatellidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=251 on 2013-05-18
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