WoRMS taxon details
original description
Gray, J.E. (1858). On the families of Aspergillidae, Gastrochaenidae and Humphreyiadae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 26: 307-318., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32271839 page(s): 312; note: as Penicillina [details]
original description
(of Aspergillidae Burmeister, 1837) Burmeister, Hermann. (1837). <em>Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen. Zweite Abtheilung: Zoologie.</em>. <em>[book].</em> xii + pp. 858 [Zoology 369-858] T.C.F. Enslin, Berlin., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46857365 page(s): 490; note: as family Aspergillina [details]
original description
(of Humphreyiidae J. E. Gray, 1858) Gray, J.E. (1858). On the structure of <i>Humphreyia</i>, an anomalous bivalve shell, hitherto confounded with <i>Aspergillum</i>. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 3, 2(7): 16-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18658917 page(s): 18; note: original spelling Humphreyiadae [details]
basis of record
Morton B. 2007. The evolution of the watering pot shells (Bivalvia, Anomalodesmata: Clavagellidae and Penicillidae). <i>Records of the Western Australian Museum</i> 24: 19-64. [details]
basis of record
Morton, B. & Machado, F.M. (2021). The origins, relationships, evolution and conservation of the weirdest marine bivalves: The watering pot shells. A review. <em>Advances in Marine Biology.</em> 88: 137-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2021.03.001 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy In his overview paper, Morton (2007) separated off a family Penicillidae for Penicillus, Brechites, Foegia, Nipponoclava, Kendrickiana and Humphreyia, from the Clavagellidae containing the extinct genus Clavagella and the extant genera Dacosta, Bryopa, Dianadema and Stirpulina. The tube or "crypt" in which these taxa live in the sediment, or attached to shells, etc., is formed in quite different ways in the two families, and Morton (2007) suggested that they evolved from distinct lyonsiid ancestors. This view is disregarded by Huber (2010) who finds this splitting exaggerated and considers all the Clavagellidae sensu Morton (2007) as subgenera of Clavagella Lamarck, 1818. [details]
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