Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Lucinoida > Superfamily Thyasiroidea

Thyasiridae Dall, 1900 (1895)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adontorhina Berry, 1947
Axinodon Verrill & Bush, 1898
Axinopsida Keen & Chavan in Chavan, 1951
Axinulus Verrill & Bush, 1898
Axinus J. Sowerby, 1821
Leptaxinus Verrill & Bush, 1898
Mendicula Iredale, 1924
Spinaxinus Oliver & Holmes, 2006
Thyasira Lamarck, 1818

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: golfschelpen

Literature

additional source	Oliver P.G. & Killeen I.J. (2002). The Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the British Continental Shelf and North Sea Oil Fields: An Identification Manual.. Studies in marine biodiversity and systematics from the National Museum of Wales. Biomôr Reports, Cardiff, Wales. vol. 3, 73 pp.:
additional source	Taylor JD, Williams ST, Glover EA (2007). Evolutionary relationships of the bivalve family Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), monophyly and superfamily status. Journal of the Marine Biology Association UK 87: 565–574
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.
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.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Thyasiridae Dall, 1900 (1895). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219