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

Pandora Bruguière, 1797

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Calopodium Röding, 1798 synonym
Trutina T. Brown, 1827 synonym

Children

Pandora albida (Röding, 1798)
Pandora glacialis Leach, 1819
Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pandora oblonga G. B. Sowerby I, 1830
Pandora pinna (Montagu, 1803)

Literature

original description

Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4].

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pandora Bruguière, 1797. 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:138310

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2022-10-13 by Bruce Marshall

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