Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Arcoida > Superfamily Arcoidea > Family Glycymerididae

Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pectunculus*	Lamarck, 1799	later homonym; nom. inval.
*Axinaea*	Poli, 1791	synonym
*Axinaea (Pectunculus)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym
*Pectunculus*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Glycymeris arabica (H. Adams, 1871)
Glycymeris bimaculata (Poli, 1795)
Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris livida (Reeve, 1843)
Glycymeris nummaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Glycymeris pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Glycymeris scripta (Born, 1778)
Glycymeris stellata (Bruguière, 1789)
Glycymeris vanhengstumi Goud & Gulden, 2009

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
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.
status source	ICZN 1986. Opinion 1414: Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 43(3): 258-261

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Glycymeris da Costa, 1778. 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:138035