Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Heterodonta
Ordo: Veneroida
Superfamilia: Tellinoidea
Familia: Psammobiidae
Subfamiliae: Capsinae - Garinae - †Psammobiinae - †Sanguinolariinae
Overview of genera (11 + †2)
†Asaphinella – Asaphis – Gari – Heterodonax – Heteroglypta – Hiatula – Nuttallia – Plebidonax – Psammacola – Psammosphaerica – Psammotella – Sanguinolaria – †Sinopsammobia
Name
Psammobiidae Fleming, 1828: 437
Type genus: Psammobia Lamarck, 1818
Synonyms
Asaphidae Winckworth, 1932
Garidae Stoliczka, 1870
Sanguinolariidae M. Smith, 1937
References
Primary references
Fleming, J. 1828. A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Bell & Bradfute: Edinburgh/James Duncan: London. xxiii + 565 pp. BHL Reference page.
The Psammobiidae, or sunset clams, are a family of medium-sized saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the order Cardiida.
These genera are accepted by the database World Register of Marine Species:[1]
Asaphis Modeer, 1793
Gari Schumacher, 1817
Heterodonax Mörch, 1853
Heteroglypta Martens in Möbius, 1880
Nuttallia Dall, 1900
Psammosphaerica Jousseaume, 1894
Psammotella Herrmannsen, 1852
Sanguinolaria Lamarck, 1799
Soletellina Blainville, 1824
References
Philippe Bouchet (2013). "Psammobiidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
External links
ITIS
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
Photographs of Psammobiidae specimens in the collection of Natural History Museum, Rotterdam. [1]
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