Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Mytilidae > Subfamily Dacrydiinae

Dacrydium Torell, 1859

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mytilus (Dacrydium)*	Torell, 1859	synonym

Children

Dacrydium abyssorum J. A. Allen, 1998
Dacrydium balgimi C. Salas & Gofas, 1997
Dacrydium dauvini C. Salas & Gofas, 1997
Dacrydium filiferum C. Salas & Cosel, 1997
Dacrydium hyalinum (Monterosato, 1875)
Dacrydium ockelmanni Mattson & Warén, 1977
Dacrydium sandersi J. A. Allen, 1998
Dacrydium vitreum (Møller, 1842)
Dacrydium viviparum Ockelmann, 1983
Dacrydium wareni C. Salas & Gofas, 1997

Literature

original description	Torell, O. (1859). Bidrag till Spitsbergen Molluskfauna. Jemte en allman öfversigt af Arktiska regionens naturforåhallanden och forntida utbredning. Föreningens Boktryckeri, Stocholm, pp. 1-154, pl. 1-2. 118.
basis of record	Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
redescription	Salas, C.; Gofas, S. (1997). Brooding and non-brooding Dacrydium (Bivalvia, Mytilidae): a review of the Atlantic species. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 63(2): 261-283.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dacrydium Torell, 1859. 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:138217