Glycymerididae
| Glycymerididae | |
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| One valve of a shell of Tucetona laticostata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Pteriomorpha |
| Order: | Arcoida |
| Family: | Glycymerididae Dall, 1908 |
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Glycymerididae, previously known as Glycymeridae, common names dog cockles or bittersweets, is a worldwide family of salt water clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the superfamily Arcoida. They are related to the ark clams. This family contains 45 species in four genera.
Description
In this family the shell is generally round in outline and is slightly longer than it is wide. The external ligament lacks transverse striations. The shell in some genera is smooth and in others it is ribbed.
History of the name
Authority of Glycymerididae has been incorrectly attributed to Newton (1916 or 1922) by a great number of authors. While Newton was the first to publish this name, Dall (1908) had previously established the subfamily Glycymerinae [sic], which gives him priority for the family name under Article 36 of ICZN. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word glykymaris (perhaps from Glykys (sweet) and Meris (part)), a word which is only recorded once in Greek literature. The family name was changed to the current name in 1957, following the ICZN rules of naming. This change remains somewhat controversial, however the present name has become more widely used since 1969.[1]
Genera and species
Genera and species in the family Glycymerididae include:
- Axinactis
- Axinactis inaequalis (Sowerby, 1833)
- Axinactis delessertii (Reeve, 1843)
- Glycymeris da Costa, 1778
- Glycymeris albolineata (Lischke, 1872) - White-lined bittersweet
- Glycymeris amboinensis
- Glycymeris americana (DeFrance, 1829) - Giant bittersweet
- Glycymeris arcodentiens
- Glycymeris bimaculata (Polish, 1795) - Two-spotted bittersweet
- Glycymeris castanea Lamarck
- Glycymeris connollyi Tomlin, 1925
- Glycymeris dampierensis
- Glycymeris decussata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Decussate bittersweet
- Glycymeris delessertii (Reeve, 1843)
- Glycymeris diomedea
- Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus, 1758) - Dog cockle or European bittersweet
- Glycymeris formosus
- Glycymeris gordoni (Nowell-Usticke, 1959)
- Glycymeris insubrica
- Glycymeris kauaia
- Glycymeris kona
- Glycymeris longior (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Glycymeris modesta (Angas, 1879)
- Glycymeris molokaia
- Glycymeris muskatensis Melvill, 1897 - Muscat bittersweet
- Glycymeris nux
- Glycymeris oculata (Reeve, 1843)
- Glycymeris pectinata (Gmelin, 1791) - Comb bittersweet
- Glycymeris pectiniformis (Lamarck, 1819)
- Glycymeris pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Glycymeris reevei (Mayer, 1868) - Reeve's bittersweet
- Glycymeris radians (Lamarck, 1819) - Rayed bittersweet
- Glycymeris rotunda (Dunker, 1882)
- Glycymeris septentrionalis (Middendorff, 1849)
- Glycymeris sericata (Reeve, 1843)
- Glycymeris spectralis (Nicol, 1952) - Spectral bittersweet
- Glycymeris strigilata Sowerby, 1833
- Glycymeris tellinaeformis (Reeve, 1843)
- Glycymeris undata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic bittersweet
- Glycymeris yessoensis (Sowerby,1886)
- Mexalanea
- Melaxinaea vitrea
- Tucetona
- Tucetona angusticosta
- Tucetona auriflua
- Tucetona bicolor
- Tucetona flabellatus
- Tucetona isabellae Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011[2]
- Tucetona laticostata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
- Tucetona multicostata
- Tucetona odhneri
- Tucetona pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tucetona strigilata
- Tucetona subtilis (Nicol, 1956)
References
- ↑ Shell morphology, shell texture and species discrimination of Caribbean Tucetona (bivalvia, glycymeridae) | Journal of Paleontology | Find Articles at BNET.com
- ↑ Valentich-Scott, V. & Garfinkle, E.A.R. (2011). "A new species of Tucetona (Bivalvia: Glycymerididae) from Mexico." Zootaxa 2769: 65-68.
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