WoRMS taxon details
Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807
225484 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225484)
accepted
Genus
Panopea aldrovandi Ménard de la Groye, 1807 accepted as Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) (type by subsequent designation)
Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted (suppressed and placed on the...)
suppressed and placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 1414
Heteromya Mayer-Eymar, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lyonsia (Penopaea) [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Myacites (Panopaea) [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Myopsis Agassiz, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym)
Panopaea [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Panope [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Panopea (Panopea) Ménard de la Groye, 1807 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Panopea abbreviata Valenciennes, 1839
- Species Panopea australis G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
- Species Panopea bitruncata (Conrad, 1872)
- Species Panopea generosa A. A. Gould, 1850
- Species Panopea globosa Dall, 1898
- Species Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778)
- Species Panopea japonica A. Adams, 1850
- Species Panopea smithae A. W. B. Powell, 1950
- Species Panopea zelandica Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
- Subgenus Panopea (Mya) Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Mya Linnaeus, 1758 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Panopea (Panopea) Ménard de la Groye, 1807 accepted as Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Panopea aldrovandi Ménard de la Groye, 1807 accepted as Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) (synonym)
- Species Panopea cyclopana Monterosato, 1889 accepted as Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) (synonym)
- Species Panopea dreyeri van Hoepen, 1940 accepted as Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Panopea glycymeris [sic] accepted as Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) (misspelling of glycimeris)
- Species Panopea hedleyi Finlay, 1927 accepted as Panopea australis G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
- Species Panopea middendorffii A. Adams, 1855 accepted as Panomya norvegica (L. Spengler, 1793) (synonym)
- Species Panopea norvegica (L. Spengler, 1793) accepted as Panomya norvegica (L. Spengler, 1793)
- Species Panopea plicata "Montagu, 1808" sensu Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Saxicavella jeffreysi Winckworth, 1930 (unaccepted > misapplication, based on misidentified Mytilus plicatus Gmelin, 1791, in Montagu, 1808)
- Species Panopea solandri J. E. Gray, 1843 accepted as Panopea zelandica Quoy & Gaimard, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Panopea spengleri Valenciennes, 1839 accepted as Panomya norvegica (L. Spengler, 1793) (synonym)
- Species Panopea tyosiensis Ozaki, 1952 accepted as Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) †
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Ménard de la Groye, F.J.B. (1807). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Coquille de la famille des Solénoides. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris.</em> 9: 131-139, pl. 12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3497609 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225484 on 2026-06-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Ménard de la Groye, F.J.B. (1807). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Coquille de la famille des Solénoides. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris.</em> 9: 131-139, pl. 12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3497609 [details]
original description (of Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799) Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 83 [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 110 [details]
original description (of Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799) Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 83 [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 110 [details]
Taxonomy
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]
status source ICZN. (1986). Opinion 1414. <i>Panopea</i> Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 43 (3): 258-261., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12757433 [details]
status source ICZN. (1986). Opinion 1414. <i>Panopea</i> Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 43 (3): 258-261., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12757433 [details]
Other
additional source
Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR.</em> 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 309 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Yonge C.M. 1971. On functional morphology and adaptive radiation in the bivalve superfamily Saxicavacea (<i>Hiatella (=Saxicava), Saxicavella, Panomya, Panope, Cyrtodaria</i>). <i>Malacologia</i> 11(1): 1-44, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13093516 [details]
page(s): 309 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yonge C.M. 1971. On functional morphology and adaptive radiation in the bivalve superfamily Saxicavacea (<i>Hiatella (=Saxicava), Saxicavella, Panomya, Panope, Cyrtodaria</i>). <i>Malacologia</i> 11(1): 1-44, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13093516 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling Panopaea is an unjustified emendation which is traced to Say (1824) J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 4: 153 by Sherborn [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Panopea)
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To NMNH Extant Collection (Panopea abbreviata USNM 869774)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Panopea abbreviata USNM 869774)
To ITIS
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