Arctic Register of Marine Species - Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941

ERMS taxon details

Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941

AphiaID

1338968 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1338968)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Xylophaga W. Turton, 1822

Parent

Pholadoidea Lamarck, 1809

Original name

Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941

Synonymised names

Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941 · unaccepted (spelling emended by ICZN Opinion 2429)

Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 † · unaccepted > superseded rank

Direct children (4)

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Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941) Purchon, R. D. (1941). On the biology and relationships of the lamellibranch Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 25: 1-39., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/1181/1/On_the_biology_and_relationships_of_the_lamellibranch_Xylophaga_dorsalis_%28Turton%29.pdf
page(s): 32, 35 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=1338968 on 2025-06-04

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941. Accessed at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1338968 on 2025-06-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2019-04-07 11:23:41Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-10-12 14:39:58Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

Licensing

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original description (of Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941) Purchon, R. D. (1941). On the biology and relationships of the lamellibranch Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 25: 1-39., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/1181/1/On_the_biology_and_relationships_of_the_lamellibranch_Xylophaga_dorsalis_%28Turton%29.pdf
page(s): 32, 35 [details]

basis of record ICZN. (2018). Opinion 2429 (Case 3717). Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): emended to Xylophagaidae to remove homonymy with Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (Insecta, Diptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 75: 297-299. [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xylophagaidae)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xylophagaidae)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xylophaginae) (from synonym Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 †)
To Genbank
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 †)
To NHMUK collection (Xylophagidae Stephens, 1829; NHMUK:ecatalogue:8698744) (from synonym Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941)

Unreviewed

To NHMUK collection (Xylophagidae Stephens, 1829; NHMUK:ecatalogue:8698744)

Hosted externally, from synonym