Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculanida > Superfamily Nuculanoidea > Family Pristiglomidae > Genus Pristigloma

Pristigloma alba H. L. Sanders & J. A. Allen, 1973

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pristigloma*	Dall, 1900	accepted genus name
*Glomus*	Jeffreys, 1876	junior homonym

Literature

original description	Sanders H. L. & Allen J. A. (1973). Studies on deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia) Prologue and the Pristiglomidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 145 (6): 237-262
basis of record	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
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.
redescription	Benaim, N. P.; Absalão, R. S. (2011). Microgloma Sanders & Allen, 1973 (Nuculanidae) and Pristigloma Dall, 1900 (Pristiglomidae) (Pelecypoda) in the Campos Basin of Brazil. ZooKeys. 152: 1-20.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pristigloma alba H. L. Sanders & J. A. Allen, 1973. 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:156977