Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Cuspidarioidea > Family Protocuspidariidae

Protocuspidaria Allen & Morgan, 1981

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Protocuspidaria (Bidentaria)*	Allen & Morgan, 1981	synonym
*Protocuspidaria (Edentaria)*	Allen & Morgan, 1981	synonym

Children

Protocuspidaria atlantica Allen & Morgan, 1981
Protocuspidaria azorica (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Protocuspidaria colpodes (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
Protocuspidaria simplis Allen & Morgan, 1981
Protocuspidaria verityi Allen & Morgan, 1981

Literature

original description	Allen J. A. & Morgan R. E. (1981). The functional morphology of Atlantic deep water species of the families Cuspidariidae and Poromyidae (Bivalvia): an analysis of the evolution of the septibranch condition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 294: 413-546
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Nomenclator Zoologicus
additional source	Poutiers, J.M. & F.R. Bernard. 1995. Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. In : P. BOUCHET (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 14. Mémoires Muséum national Histoire naturelle, 167 : 107-187.

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Citation

Sartori, André F.; Gofas, S. (2014). Protocuspidaria Allen & Morgan, 1981. 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:137861