Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Lucinida > Superfamily Thyasiroidea

Thyasiridae Dall, 1900 (1895)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adontorhina S. S. Berry, 1947
Axinopsida Keen & Chavan, 1951
Axinulus A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
Axinus J. Sowerby, 1821
Channelaxinus Valentich-Scott & Coan, 2012
Genaxinus Iredale, 1930
Leptaxinus A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
Mendicula Iredale, 1924
Parathyasira Iredale, 1930
Spinaxinus P. G. Oliver & Holmes, 2006
Thyasira Lamarck, 1818

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: golfschelpen sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

Japanese: ハナシガイ科

Literature

original description	Dall, W. H. (1890-1903). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 3(1): 1-200 [1890]; 3(2): 201-474 [1892]; 3(3): 475-570, and plates for part 1: pp. 179-190, pl. 1-12; plates for part 2: pp. 449-458, pl. 13-22 [1895]; 3(4): [i]-viii, 571-948, pl. 23-35; [1898]; 3(5): 949-1218, pl. 36-47 [1900]; 3(6): [i]-xiv, 1219-1654, pl. 48-60 [27 October1903].
additional source	Oliver P.G. & Killeen I.J. (2002). The Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the British Continental Shelf and North Sea Oil Fields: An Identification Manual.. Studies in marine biodiversity and systematics from the National Museum of Wales. Biomôr Reports, Cardiff, Wales. vol. 3, 73 pp.:
additional source	Payne, C.M. & Allen, J.A. (1991). The morphology of deep sea Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Atlantic Ocean. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, series B. 334(1272): 481-562.
additional source	Taylor JD, Williams ST, Glover EA (2007). Evolutionary relationships of the bivalve family Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), monophyly and superfamily status. Journal of the Marine Biology Association UK 87: 565–574
additional source	Kokarev, V.; Dufour, S. C.; Raeymaekers, J. A. M.; Mailli, A. A.; Reiss, H. (2024). Thyasirid species composition (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) and genetic connectivity of Parathyasira equalis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) in deep basins of sub-Arctic fjords. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 24: 91 (13 pp.).
additional source	Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.
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. Thyasiridae Dall, 1900 (1895). 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:219