Thraciidae

Family of molluscs

Thraciidae
Thracia convexa from the Illustrated Index of British Shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Superorder: Anomalodesmata
Superfamily: Thracioidea
Family: Thraciidae
Stoliczka, 1870
Genera

16 (see text)

Thraciidae is a family of small marine bivalves in the superorder Anomalodesmata.[1][2][3]

Genera

The following 16 genera are included in the family Thraciidae:[1]

  • Asthenothaerus P. P. Carpenter, 1864
  • Barythaerus B. A. Marshall, 2002[3]
  • Bushia Dall, 1886
  • Cetothrax Iredale, 1949
  • Cyathodonta Conrad, 1849
  • Lampeia MacGinitie, 1959
  • Parvithracia H. J. Finlay, 1926
  • Pelopina M. Huber, 2010
  • Phragmorisma Tate, 1894
  • Pseudocyathodonta Coan, 1990
  • Skoglundia Coan, 1990
  • Thracia Blainville, 1824
  • Thracidentula Garrard, 1961
  • Thracidora Iredale, 1924
  • Thraciopsis Tate & May, 1900
  • Trigonothracia G. Yamamoto & Habe, 1959

References

  1. ^ a b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2024). "Thraciidae Stoliczka, 1870 (1839)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  2. ^ Harper, Elizabeth M.; Hide, Elizabeth A. & Morton, Brian (2000). "Relationships between the extant Anomalodesmata: a cladistic test". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 177 (1): 129–143. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.177.01.07.
  3. ^ a b Marshall, B. A. (2002). "Some Recent Thraciidae, Periplomatidae, Myochamidae, Cuspidariidae and Spheniopsidae (Anomalodesmata) from the New Zealand region and referral of Thracia reinga Crozier, 1966 and Scintillona benthicola Dell, 1956 to Tellimya Brown, 1827 (Montacutidae) (Mollusca : Bivalvia)". Molluscan Research. 22 (3): 221–288. doi:10.1071/MR02011.

Further reading

  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Sartori, André F.; Domaneschi, Osmar (2005). "The functional morphology of the Antarctic bivalve Thracia meridionalis Smith, 1885 (Anomalodesmata: Thraciidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 71 (3): 199–210. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyi028.
Taxon identifiers
Thraciidae
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