Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Verticordioidea

Verticordiidae Stoliczka, 1870

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Halicardia Dall, 1895
Haliris Dall, 1886
Laevicordia G. Seguenza, 1876
Pecchiolia Savi & Meneghini, 1850
Spinosipella Iredale, 1930
Vertambitus Iredale, 1930
Verticordia J. De C. Sowerby, 1844

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オトヒメゴコロガイ科

Literature

original description	Stoliczka, F. (1870-1871). The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent. In: T. Oldham, Paleontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Volume 3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxii, 1-537, pls 1-50 [pp. 1-222, pl. 1-12 - 1870; pp. i-xxii, 223—537, pl. 23-50 - 1871].
basis of record	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Verticordiidae Stoliczka, 1870. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:13716