Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Thracioidea > Family Periplomatidae > Genus Cochlodesma

Cochlodesma praetenue (Pulteney, 1799)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Anatina Lamarck, 1818

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cochlodesma*	Couthouy, 1839	accepted genus name
*Bontaea*	T. Brown, 1844	synonym
*Cochlodesma (Bontaea)*	T. Brown, 1844	synonym

Species group names

*Thracia praetenuis*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Anatina oblonga*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	synonym
*Cochlodesma (Bontaea) praetenue*	(Pulteney, 1799)	synonym
*Mya praetenuis*	Pulteney, 1799	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: lepelschelp sources: 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: European spoon clam 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.

German: Fragile Löffelmuschel

Literature

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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cochlodesma praetenue (Pulteney, 1799). 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:181373