Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Pholadoidea > Family Xylophagaidae

Xylophaga W. Turton, 1822

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xylophaga dorsalis (W. Turton, 1819)
Xylophaga gagei Harvey, 1996
Xylophaga nidarosiensis Santhakumaran, 1980
Xylophaga noradi Santhakumaran, 1980
Xylophaga praestans E. A. Smith, 1903
Xylophaga ricei Harvey, 1996

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Norwegian Nynorsk: treboreskjel

Literature

original description	Turton, W. (1822). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls.
additional source	Turner, R. D. (2002). On the subfamily Xylophagainae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157(4): 223-307.
additional source	Knudsen, J. (1961). The bathyal and abyssal Xylophaga (Pholadidae, Bivalvia). Galathea Reports. 5: 163-209.
additional source	Harvey R. (1996). Deep water Xylophagaidae (Pelecypoda: Pholadacea) from the North Atlantic with description of three new species.. Journal of Conchology 35(6): 473-481
additional source	Turner, R. D. (1956). Notes on Xylophaga washingtona Bartsch and on the genus. The Nautilus. 70(1): 10-12.
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. Xylophaga W. Turton, 1822. 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:138667