WoRMS name details

Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941

489105  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:489105)

 unaccepted (spelling emended by ICZN Opinion 2429)
Family
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to...  
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to avoid homonymy with the family name Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (based on Xylophagus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]. However, under ICZN Art. 55.3.1, a change in spelling can be done only by the Commission, which has to be petitioned to amend the spelling of the bivalve name.  [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489105 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
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2010-07-10 09:41:30Z
created
2014-11-05 19:50:57Z
changed
2019-04-07 11:23:41Z
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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. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]   

additional source Distel, D. L.; Amin, M.; Burgoyne, A.; Linton, E.; Mamangkey, G.; Morrill, W.; Nove, J.; Wood, N.; Yang, J. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of Pholadoidea Lamarck, 1809 supports a single origin for xylotrophy (wood feeding) and xylotrophic bacterial endosymbiosis in Bivalvia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61(2): 245-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.019 [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. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Classification Xylophagidae has often been treated as a subfamily of Pholadidae but Distel et al. (2011) showed it is more closely related to Teredinidae than to Pholadidae and Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) treated it as a full family. [details]

Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to avoid homonymy with the family name Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (based on Xylophagus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]. However, under ICZN Art. 55.3.1, a change in spelling can be done only by the Commission, which has to be petitioned to amend the spelling of the bivalve name.  [details]
LanguageName 
Norwegian Bokmål dødvedfluer  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk daudvedfluger  [details]
Swedish vedflugor  [details]