Pholadidea

Pholadidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myoida
Family: Pholadidae
Subfamily: Martesiinae
Genus: Pholadidea
Turton, 1819
Type species
Pholadidea loscombiana
Turton, 1819[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cadmusia Leach in Gray, 1852
  • Pholameria Conrad, 1865
  • Talonella Gray, 1851

Pholadidea is a taxonomic genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pholadidae (the piddocks). Most members of Pholididea bore into shale, soft rock and coral for shelter, with the exception of Pholididea (Hatasia) wiffenae, which is a wood-borer.[1]

Appearance

The Pholididea are distinguished from the other genera in Martesiinae by having only on umbonal-ventral sulcus, a longitudinally-divided mesoplax, and either no metaplax and hypoplax, or a single plate caused by deposition of calcite in the periostratum.[1]

Occurrence

Pholididea is known from the Eocene to the Holocene, while the subgenus P. (Hatasia) is known only from the Holocene.[1] Species have been reported from the Palaeocene and Late Cretaceous, but these likely belong in other genera.[1]

Taxonomy

The following taxonomic classifications exist in Pholididea:[1][2]

Subgenera

Species

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Crampton, James S. (1990). "A New Species of Late-Cretaceous Wood-boring Bivalve from New Zealand" (PDF). Palaeontology 33 (4): 981–992.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, Serge; Bastien Tran, Phillipe Bouchet (2004–2011). "Pholadidea Turton, 1819". World Register of Marine Species.

External links

External identifiers for Pholadidea
ITIS 205660
WoRMS 138342
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