Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Adapedonta > Superfamily Hiatelloidea > Family Hiatellidae > Genus Hiatella

Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Mya Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

HiatellaBosc, 1801accepted genus name
Byssomia Say, 1818 orthographic variant
Byssomya Oken, 1817 orthographic variant
Biapholius Lamarck, 1818 synonym
Didonta Schumacher, 1817 synonym
Rhomboides Blainville, 1824 synonym
Saxicava Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802 synonym

Species group names

Biapholius spinosus Leach, 1822 synonym
Byssomia crispa Danilo & Sandri, 1856 synonym
Chama aculeata Strøm, 1768 synonym
Didonta bicarinata Schumacher, 1817 synonym
Hiatella biaperta Bosc, 1801 synonym
Hiatella monoperta Bosc, 1801 synonym
Hiatella oblonga W. Turton, 1822 synonym
Hypogaea barbata Poli, 1795 synonym
Mya byssifera O. Fabricius, 1780 synonym
Mytilus pholadis Linnaeus, 1771 synonym
Mytilus praecisus Montagu, 1803 synonym
Petricola awana Yokoyama, 1924 synonym
Rhomboides rugosus var. aculeata Scacchi, 1836 synonym
Saxicava arctica (Linnaeus, 1767) synonym
Saxicava arctica var. abbreviata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896 synonym
Saxicava arctica var. dilatata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896 synonym
Saxicava arctica var. inermis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896 synonym
Saxicava flaccida Gould, 1861 synonym
Saxicava gallicana Lamarck, 1818 synonym
Saxicava groenlandica Potiez & Michaud, 1844 synonym
Saxicava orientalis Yokoyama, 1920 synonym
Saxicava rubra Deshayes, 1845 synonym
Saxicava rugosa var. cylindrica S. V. Wood, 1847 synonym
Saxicava sakhalinensis Takeda, 1953 synonym
Saxicava striata Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802 synonym
Saxicava ungana Grewingk, 1850 synonym
Solen minutus Linnaeus, 1767 synonym
Sphenia bilirata Gabb, 1861 synonym
Tellina rhomboides Poli, 1791 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: hulemusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: noordse rotsboorder; Noorse rotsboorder sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: Arctic hiatella; Arctic rock borer; Arctic saxicave; Nestling clam; red nose; red-nose clam; wrinkled rock borer; wrinkled rockborer sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.
 German: Arktischer Felsenbohrer; Felsenbohrer; Nördlicher Felsenbohrer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.
 Norwegian Bokmål: steinboreskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: steinboreskjel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: Хиателла арктическая sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.
 Swedish: stenborrmussla

Literature

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

Lesport J.-F., Lozouet P., Pacaud J.-M., Rocher P., Renard P. & Favia R. (2019). Les Bivalvia de l'Aquitanien (Miocène inférieur) de Saucats "Lariey" (Gironde, Sud-Ouest France). 2.- Heterodonta (Première partie). Cossmanniana. 21: 3-99.

additional source

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.

additional source

Raines B. & Huber M. (2012) Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Sala y Gomez bivalves. Zootaxa 3217: 1-106. [29 Feb. 2012]

additional source

Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

additional source

Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

additional source

Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].

additional source

Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.

status source

Laakkonen, H. M., Strelkov, P. & Väinölä, R. (2016). Molecular lineage diversity and inter-oceanic biogeographical history in Hiatella (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Zoologica Scripta 44: 383-402.

identification resource

Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

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External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:140103

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

IUCN:
Red List status CR 2006This species is critically endangered and is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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