Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Veneroida > Superfamily Veneroidea > Family Veneridae > Subfamily Petricolinae > Genus Petricolaria

Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petricolaria*	Stoliczka, 1870	accepted genus name
*Gastranella*	Verrill, 1872	synonym

Species group names

*Gastranella tumida*	Verrill, 1872	synonym
*Petricola lata*	Dall, 1925	synonym
*Petricola pholadiformis*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Amerikaanse boormossel

French: pétricole pholadiforme

Literature

basis of record	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
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	ITIS database
additional source	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (12 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GBIF

Citation

Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2014). Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156961