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

Poromya Forbes, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Embla*	Lovén, 1846	synonym

Children

Poromya granulata (Nyst & Westendorp, 1839)

Literature

original description	Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193.
basis of record	Poutiers, J. M.; Bernard, F. R. (1995). Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 107-187.
additional source	Krylova, E. M. 1997. New taxa and the system of Recent representatives of the family Poromyidae (Bivalvia, Septibranchia, Poromyoidea). Ruthenica 7: 141-148.
additional source	Morton, B. (1981). Prey capture in the carnivorous septibranch Poromya granulata (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyacea). Sarsia. 66: 241-256.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Poromya Forbes, 1844. 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:138373