Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Archiheterodonta > Order Carditida > Superfamily Crassatelloidea > Family Astartidae

Astarte J. Sowerby, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crassina*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Children

Astarte belti G. H. Petersen, 2001
Astarte crebricostata McAndrew & Forbes, 1847
Astarte crenata (J. E. Gray, 1824)
Astarte falsteri G. H. Petersen, 2001
Astarte sericea Posselt, 1895
Astarte sulcata (da Costa, 1778)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Norwegian Bokmål: astarteskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: astarteskjel

Literature

original description	Sowerby, J. (1815-1818). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. II]. London, privately published, pp. 1-235 + index, errata and addenda [3 pp.] + supplementary index to vol. II, pp. 240-251; pl. 103-233.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.