Petricolidae
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The Petricolidae is a family
of bivalves related to the large family Veneridae
or Venus clams. Some authors include these genera within the Veneridae as the subfamily Petricolinae.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of bivalves related to the large family Veneridae
Veneridae
The Veneridae or venerids, also known as the Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. There are over 500 living species of venerid bivalves, most of which are edible, and many of which are exploited as a food source.Many of the most...
or Venus clams. Some authors include these genera within the Veneridae as the subfamily Petricolinae.
Genera and species
Genera and species in the family Petricolidae include:- Choristodon Jonas, 1844
- Choristodon robustum (G. B. Sowerby IGeorge Brettingham Sowerby IGeorge Brettingham Sowerby I was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.He was the son of James Sowerby. Together with his brother James De Carle Sowerby he continued their father's work on fossil shells, publishing the latter parts of the Mineral Conchology of Great Britain...
, 1834)
- Choristodon robustum (G. B. Sowerby I
- Cooperella CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864- Cooperella atlantica RehderAlfred RehderAlfred Rehder was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Rehder was a newspaper writer from Germany who was originally hired as a laborer at the Arnold Arboretum. His talents for horticultural plant taxonomy were soon recognized, however...
, 1943 - Cooperella subdiaphana (CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864)
- Cooperella atlantica Rehder
- Mysia LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
, 1818- Mysia undata (PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
, 1777)
- Mysia undata (Pennant
- PetricolaPetricolaPetricola is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Petricolidae, which is related to the large family Veneridae, the Venus clams.-Species:...
LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
, 1801 - PetricolariaPetricolariaPetricolaria is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Petricolidae, which is related to the large family Veneridae, the Venus clams.-Species:* Petricolaria pholadiformis Lamarck, 1818 - false angelwing...
Stoliczka, 1870
- Rupellaria Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802
- Rupellaria cancellata (VerrillAddison Emery VerrillAddison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...
, 1885) - Rupellaria denticulata (Sowerby, 1834)
- Rupellaria tellimyalis (CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864)
- Rupellaria cancellata (Verrill