Thyasiridae

Thyasira trisinuata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lucinoidea
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: Lucinoidea

Familia: Thyasiridae
Subfamiliae: Axinopsidinae – Thyasirinae

Overview of genera: Adontorhina – Ascetoaxinus – Axinopsida – Axinulus – Axinus – Channelaxinus – Conchocele – †Eothyasira – Genaxinus – Leptaxinus – Maorithyas – Mendicula – Ochetoctena – Odontogena – Parathyasira – Philis – Prothyasira – Rhacothyas – Spinaxinus – Tauraxinus – Thyasira – †Wallerconcha

Name

Thyasiridae Dall, 1900: 1116 (1895)

• under Art. 40.2 of the ICZN, Thyasiridae is conserved over Cryptodontidae with the priority of the latter (1895)

Type genus: Thyasira Lamarck, 1818

References

Primary references

• Dall, W.H. 1900. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Part 5, Teleodesmacea: Solen to Diplodonta. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Philadelphia 3(5): 949–1218. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Coan, E.V., P.V. Scott, & F.R. Bernard. 2000. Bivalve seashells of western North America: marine bivalve mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs 2: 273.
• Oliver, P.G. 2015. Deep-water Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Oman Margin, Arabian Sea, new species and examples of endemism and cosmopolitanism. Zootaxa 3995(1): 252–263. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.21. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.G. & Frey, M.A. 2014. Ascetoaxinus quatsinoensis sp. et gen. nov. (Bivalvia: Thyasiroidea) from Vancouver Island, with notes on Conchocele Gabb, 1866, and Channelaxinus Valentich-Scott & Coan, 2012. Zootaxa 3869(4): 452–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.4.8 Reference page. 
• Valentich-Scott, P., Powell, C.L. II, Lorenson, T.D. & Ewards, B.E. 2014. A new genus and species of Thyasiridae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from deep-water, Beaufort Sea, northern Alaska. ZooKeys 462: 11–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.462.6790 Reference page. 

Links

• Thyasiridae in the World Register of Marine Species

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