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Veneridae  Rafinesque, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 81439

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Turtoniidae W. Clark, 1855
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2020   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassAutobranchia   
                      InfraclassHeteroconchia   
                         OrderVenerida   
                            SuperfamilyVeneroidea Rafinesque, 1815  
                               FamilyVeneridae Rafinesque, 1815  
    Direct Children:  
                                  GenusAgriopoma Dall, 1902  
                                  GenusAmiantis Carpenter, 1884  
                                  GenusAnomalocardia Schumacher, 1817  
                                  GenusCallista Poli, 1791  
                                  GenusChamelea Morch, 1853  
                                  GenusChione Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811  
                                  GenusChionista Keen, 1958  
                                  GenusCircomphalus Klein, 1853  
                                  GenusClausinella J. E. Gray, 1851  
                                  GenusCompsomyax Stewart, 1930  
                                  GenusCyclinella Dall, 1902  
                                  GenusDosinia Scopoli, 1777  
                                  GenusGafrarium Roding, 1798  
                                  GenusGemma Deshayes, 1853  
                                  GenusGlobivenus Coen, 1934  
                                  GenusGouldia C. B. Adams, 1847  
                                  GenusHumilaria Grant and Gale, 1931  
                                  GenusIrus Schmidt, 1818  
                                  GenusIrusella Hertlein and Grant, 1972  
                                  GenusLiocyma Dall, 1870  
                                  GenusLirophora Conrad, 1883  
                                  GenusMacrocallista Meek, 1876  
                                  GenusMercenaria Schumacher, 1817  
                                  GenusNutricola Bernard, 1982  
                                  GenusParastarte Conrad, 1862  
                                  GenusPeriglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914  
                                  GenusPitar Römer, 1857  
                                  GenusProtothaca Dall, 1902  
                                  GenusPuberella Fischer-Piette and Vukadinovic, 1977  
                                  GenusSaxidomus Conrad, 1837  
                                  GenusTapes Muhlfeld, 1811  
                                  GenusTimoclea Brown, 1827  
                                  GenusTivela Link, 1807  
                                  GenusTransennella Dall, 1883  
                                  GenusTurtonia Alder, 1848  
                                  GenusVenerupis Lamarck, 1818  
                                  GenusVenus Linnaeus, 1758  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Paul V. Scott   
  Notes: Senior Associate Curator, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, USA   
  Reference for: Veneridae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bieler, Rüdiger, Joseph G. Carter, and Eugene V. Coan   
  Publication Date: 2010   
  Article/Chapter Title: Classification of Bivalve Families, IN Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Malacologia, vol. 52, no. 2   
  Page(s): 113-184   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0076-2997   
  Notes: Available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.052.0201   
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Coan, Eugene V., Paul Valentich Scott, and Frank R. Bernard   
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title: Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs, Number 2; Studies in Biodiversity, Number 2   
  Page(s): viii + 764   
  Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History   
  Publication Place: Santa Barbara, California, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Millard, V.   
  Publication Date: 1997   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Classification of Mollusca: A classification of world wide Mollusca   
  Page(s): 1-544   
  Publisher: Victor Millard   
  Publication Place: South Africa   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-620-21261-6   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ponder, Winston Frank, David R. Lindberg, and Juliet Mary Ponder   
  Publication Date: 2020   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, vol. 2   
  Page(s): xx + 870   
  Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780815361848   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Vaught, K. C. / Abbott, Robert T. and Kenneth J. Boss   
  Publication Date: 1989   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A classification of the living Mollusca   
  Page(s): xii+195   
  Publisher: American Malacologists, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Melbourne, FL, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-915826-22-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Veneridae   
       

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