Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Verticordioidea > Family Lyonsiellidae > Genus Policordia

Policordia atlantica J. A. Allen & J. F. Turner, 1974

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Policordia*	Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938	accepted genus name
*Polycordia*		orthographic variant
*Policordia (Policordia)*	Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938	synonym

Species group names

*Lyonsiella atlantica*	(J. A. Allen & J. F. Turner, 1974)	synonym

Literature

original description	Allen, J. A.; Turner, J. F. (1974). On the functional morphology of the family Verticordiidae (Bivalvia) with descriptions of new species from the abyssal Atlantic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B). 268(894): 401-536, pl. 58.
basis of record	Poutiers, J. M.; Bernard, F. R. (1995). Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 107-187.
additional source	Safonova L. A. & Krylova E. M. (2020). Status of the genus Dallicordia and composition of deep-sea carnivorous bivalves of the genus Policordia (Bivalvia, Verticordioidea, Lyonsiellidae). Ruthenica. 30(3): 173-182.
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. Policordia atlantica J. A. Allen & J. F. Turner, 1974. 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:405955