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

Thracia Blainville, 1824

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thracia (Thracia)*	Blainville, 1824	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Thracia convexa (W. Wood, 1815)
Thracia corbuloides Deshayes, 1824
Thracia devexa G. O. Sars, 1878
Thracia gracilis Jeffreys, 1865
Thracia myopsis Møller, 1842
Thracia phaseolina (Lamarck, 1818)
Thracia pubescens (Pulteney, 1799)
Thracia septentrionalis Jeffreys, 1872
Thracia villosiuscula (MacGillivray, 1827)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Norwegian Bokmål: lanterneskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: lanterneskjel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: Трация

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
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	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Thracia Blainville, 1824. 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:138549