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

Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Pitarinae*	Stewart, 1930	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Antigona Schumacher, 1817
Callista Poli, 1791
Callocardia A. Adams, 1864
Chamelea Mörch, 1853
Circe Schumacher, 1817
Circenita Jousseaume, 1888
Circomphalus Mörch, 1853
Clausinella Gray, 1851
Clementia Gray, 1842
Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Gafrarium Röding, 1798
Globivenus Coen, 1934
Gouldia C. B. Adams, 1847
Irus F. C. Schmidt, 1818
Liocyma Dall, 1870
Lirophora Conrad, 1863
Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817
Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
Notopaphia Oliver, 1923
Paphia Röding, 1798
Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914
Petricolinae d'Orbigny, 1840
Pitar Römer, 1857
Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900
Redicirce Iredale, 1924
Ruditapes Chiamenti, 1900
Sunetta Link, 1807
Tapes Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Timoclea T. Brown, 1827
Turtoniinae Clark, 1855
Venerupis Lamarck, 1818
Venus Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: artemisschelpen; tapijtschelpen; venusschelpen sources: de Bruyne, R.H. (1991). Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust [Shells of the Dutch coast]. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij/KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-017-9. III, 165 pp.;de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: venus shells sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Venus shells sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: venusmusslor

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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

Bouchet, P. (2014). Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815. 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:243