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

Cetomya Dall, 1889

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Poromya (Cetomya)*	Dall, 1889	synonym

Children

Cetomya neaeroides (G. Seguenza, 1877)
Cetomya tornata (Jeffreys, 1876)

Literature

basis of record	Krylova, E. M. (2001). Mollusques septibranches de la famille Poromyidae (Bivalvia: Poromyoidea) des régions tropicales du Pacifique occidental = Septibranchiate molluscs of the family Poromyidae (Bivalvia: Poromyoidea) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. in: Bouchet, P. et al. (Ed.) Tropical deep-sea benthos. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 185: 165-200.
additional source	Krylova, E. M. 1997. New taxa and the system of Recent representatives of the family Poromyidae (Bivalvia, Septibranchia, Poromyoidea). Ruthenica 7: 141-148.
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. Cetomya Dall, 1889. 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:456385