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

Policordia Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polycordia*		orthographic variant
*Policordia (Policordia)*	Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Policordia atlantica J. A. Allen & J. F. Turner, 1974
Policordia densicostata (Locard, 1898)
Policordia gemma (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
Policordia jeffreysi (Friele, 1879)
Policordia uschakovi (Gorbunov, 1946)

Literature

original description	Dall, W. H.; Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H. A. (1938). A manual of the Recent and fossil marine pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 153: 1-233, 58 pls. [25 July].
additional source	Safonova L. A. & Krylova E. M. (2020). Status of the genus Dallicordia and composition of deep-sea carnivorous bivalves of the genus Policordia (Bivalvia, Verticordioidea, Lyonsiellidae). Ruthenica. 30(3): 173-182.
additional source	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	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Policordia Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938. 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:138655