Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Pholadomyoidea > Family Parilimyidae

Parilimya Melvill & Standen, 1899

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pholadomya (Parilimya)*	Melvill & Standen, 1899	synonym

Children

Parilimya loveni (Jeffreys, 1882)

Literature

original description	Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1899). Report on the Marine Mollusca obtained during the First Expedition of Prof. A. C. Haddon to the Torres Straits, in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 27 (174): 150-206, pls 10-11.
basis of record	Coan E.V. 2000. A new species of Panacca from Chile (Bivalvia: Pholadomyoidea: Parilimyidae). Malacologia 42(1-2): 165-170
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Morton B. (1982). The functional morphology of Parilimya fragilis (Bivalvia: Parilimyidae fam. nov.) with a discussion on the origin and evolution of the carnivorous septibranchs and a reclassification of the Anomalodesmata. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 36(3): 153-216

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Parilimya Melvill & Standen, 1899. 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:413857