''Polititapes'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
marine bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
molluscs
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
in the subfamily
Tapetinae of the family
Veneridae
The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus (mythology), 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 m ...
, commonly known as carpet shells.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246149 on 2022-02-03]
Taxonomy
This species and allied are usually held in ''
Venerupis'' but this is not unequivocally supported; Huber (2010) is here followed in using ''Polititapes'' as valid genus, awaiting a much needed phylogenetic revision of the group. ''Polititapes'' was published February, 1900 and therefore has priority over ''Callistotapes''
Sacco, 1900 (published April 29, 1900) in case they are considered synonyms.
Species
* ''
Polititapes aureus''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Polititapes durus''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Polititapes lucens'' (Locard, 1886)
* ''
Polititapes merklini''
(Goncharova, 1986) †
* ''
Polititapes modesta''
(Dubois, 1831) †
* ''
Polititapes parvovalis''
Zettler & Alf, 2021
* ''
Polititapes rhomboides''
(Pennant, 1777)
;Synonyms:
* ''Polititapes virgineus''
(Linnaeus, 1767) sensu auct. : synonym of ''Polititapes rhomboides''
(Pennant, 1777) (misapplication)
References
* Chiamenti, A. (1900). Contribuzione alio studio della Malacofauna Adriatica. Nota sulla famiglia della Veneridae, e della Petricolidae. Rivista Italiana di Scienze Naturali. 20(1-2): 9-15.
* Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
External links
Sacco, F. (1900). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVIII. (Isocardiidae, Cyprinidae, Veneridae, Petricolidae, Cyrenidae e Sphaeridae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 98 pp, 14 pl.Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26 (1312): 335-412.
Veneridae
Bivalve genera
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