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

Laternula Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anatina*	Lamarck, 1818	junior homonym

Children

Laternula anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オキナガイ属

Literature

original description	Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
additional source	Aller, R. C. (1974). Prefabrication of shell ornamentation in the bivalve Laternula. Lethaia. 7(1): 43-56.
status source	Taylor, J. D.; Glover, E. A.; Harper, E. M.; Crame, J. A.; Ikebe, C.; Williams, S. T. (2018). Left in the cold? Evolutionary origin of Laternula elliptica, a keystone bivalve species of Antarctic benthos. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(2): 360-376.
subsequent type designation	Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Laternula Röding, 1798. 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:138106