''Petricola'' is a
genus
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of saltwater
clam
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s,
marine
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bivalve
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molluscs in the subfamily
Petricolinae
Petricolinae is a subfamily of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs related to the large family Veneridae or Venus clams. Some authors include these genera within the Veneridae as the subfamily Petricolinae.
Genera and species
Genera and ...
of the family
Veneridae
The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. Over 500 living species of venerid bivalves are known, most of which are edible, and many of which are ...
, the Venus clams.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138332 on 2022-01-02]
Species
According to the
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within the genus ''Petricola'' include:
* ''
Petricola aequistriata
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
* ''
Petricola angolensis
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
Cosel, 1995
* ''
Petricola bicolor
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
G. B. Sowerby II, 1854
* ''
Petricola botula
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
Olsson, 1961
* ''
Petricola californiensis
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
Pilsbry and Lowe, 1932
* ''
Petricola carditoides
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(Conrad
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, 1837)
* ''
Petricola concinna
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
* ''
Petricola dactylus
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1823)
* ''
Petricola denticulata
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
* ''
Petricola divergens
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Petricola exarata
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* ''
Petricola fabagella
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
Lamarck, 1818
* ''
Petricola habei
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
M. Huber, 2010
* ''
Petricola hertzana
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
Coan, 1997
* ''
Petricola insignis
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
(Deshayes, 1854)
* ''
Petricola inversa
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
Macsotay & Villarroel, 2001
* ''
Petricola japonica''
Dunker, 1882
* ''
Petricola lapicida
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Petricola linguafelis
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
''
(Carpenter, 1857)
* ''
Petricola lithophaga''
(Philippson, 1788)
* ''
Petricola monstrosa
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World R ...
''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Petricola olssoni
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
F. R. Bernard, 1983
* ''
Petricola quadrasi''
(Hidalgo, 1886)
* ''
Petricola rugosa''
G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
* ''
Petricola scotti
''Petricola'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petricola Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
''
Coan, 1997
;Synonyms:
* ''Petricola brugieri''
Hanley : synonym of ''
Venerupis bruguieri
''Venerupis'' is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae commonly known as carpet shells. The valves are robust and rhomboidal with the umbones turned-in and nearer the anterior end. The posterior end is wedge-shaped and the i ...
''
(Hanley, 1845)
* ''Petricola donnae''
Petuch, 1998 : synonym of ''
Petricolaria donnae''
(Petuch, 1998)
* ''Petricola lajonkairii''
(Payraudeau, 1826): synonym of ''
Lajonkairia lajonkairii
''Lajonkairia lajonkairii'' is an edible species of saltwater clam in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Lajonkairia lajonkairii (Payraudeau, 1826). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
''
(Payraudeau, 1826)
* ''Petricola lucasana''
Herlein and Strong, 1948:
Catalogue of Life
/ref> synonym of ''Petricola insignis'' (Deshayes, 1854)
* ''Petricola pholadiformis'' Lamarck, 1818: synonym of ''Petricolaria pholadiformis
''Petricolaria pholadiformis'', common names false angelwing, or false angel wing (US), and American piddock (UK), is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
Description
''Petricolaria ...
'' (Lamarck, 1818) (original combination)
* ''Petricola robusta'' G.B. Sowerby I, 1834: synonym of ''Choristodon robustus
''Choristodon'' is a genus of bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisti ...
'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) (original combination)
References
* Habe, T. 1951. Petricolidae, Cardiliidae and Anatinellidae in Japan. In: Kuroda, T. (ed.) Illustrated catalogue of Japanese shells.
* 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.
External links
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp
Gray, J. E. (1853). A revision of the genera of some of the families of Conchifera or bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 11: 33-44, 398-402
Fleuriau [de] Bellevue (L.B.) 1802. Mémoire sur quelques nouveaux genres de mollusques et vers lithophages, et sur les facultés qu'ont ces animaux de percer le rochers. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts (Paris), 54: 345-369
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
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Veneridae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck