Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Adapedonta > Superfamily Hiatelloidea > Family Hiatellidae

Hiatella Bosc, 1801

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Byssomia*	Say, 1818	orthographic variant
*Byssomya*	Oken, 1817	orthographic variant
*Biapholius*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Didonta*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Rhomboides*	Blainville, 1824	synonym
*Saxicava*	Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802	synonym

Children

Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)
Hiatella rugosa (Linnaeus, 1767)

Literature

original description	Bosc, L. A. G. (1801). Histoire naturelle des coquilles, contenant leur description, les moeurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages. Deterville, Paris. vol. 1, 343 p.; vol. 2, 330 p.; vol. 3, 292 p.; vol. 4, 280 p.; vol. 5, 255 p., 1 table, 44 plates.
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.
status source	Laakkonen, H. M., Strelkov, P. & Väinölä, R. (2016). Molecular lineage diversity and inter-oceanic biogeographical history in Hiatella (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Zoologica Scripta 44: 383-402.
subsequent type designation	Winckworth, R. (1932). The British marine Mollusca. Journal of Conchology. 19 (7): 211-252.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hiatella Bosc, 1801. 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:138068