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WRiMS taxon detailsVeneridae Rafinesque, 1815
Subfamily Callocardiinae Dall, 1895
Subfamily Clementiinae Frizzell, 1936 » Genus Clementia Gray, 1842
Subfamily Dosiniinae Deshayes, 1853 » Genus Dosinia Scopoli, 1777
Subfamily Gemminae Dall, 1895 » Genus Gemma Deshayes, 1853
Subfamily Gouldiinae R. B. Stewart, 1930 » Genus Circe Schumacher, 1817
Subfamily Meretricinae Gray, 1847» Genus Circenita Jousseaume, 1888 » Genus Gafrarium Röding, 1798 » Genus Gouldiopa Iredale, 1924 » Genus Microcirce Habe, 1951 » Genus Redicirce Iredale, 1936 » Genus Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
Subfamily Petricolinae d'Orbigny, 1840Subfamily Tapetinae Gray, 1851 » Genus Paphia Röding, 1798
Subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815» Genus Paratapes Stoliczka, 1870 » Genus Ruditapes Chiamenti, 1900 » Genus Tapes Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 » Genus Venerupis Lamarck, 1818 » Genus Antigona Schumacher, 1817
» Genus Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817 » Genus Timoclea T. Brown, 1827 » Genus Venus Linnaeus, 1758
marine, brackish
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Rius, M.; Ahyong, S.; Costello, M. J.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Katsanevakis, S.; Lejeusne, C.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Poore, G. C. B; Robinson, T. B.; Sterrer, W.; Turon, X.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2021) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243 on 2023-06-07
Rius, M.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Costello, M. J.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Panov, V. E.; Poore, G. C. B; Robinson, T. B.; Sterrer, W.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Yeo Chong Jinn, D.; Zhan, A. (2023). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=243 on 2023-06-07
basis of record
Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
 additional source Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details] additional source Jukes-Brown A.D. 1914. A synopsis of the family Veneridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 11(1): 58-74; 11(2): 75-94, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96204 [details] additional source Chen, J.; Li, Q.; Kong, L.; Zheng, X. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of venus clams (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) with emphasis on the systematic position of taxa along the coast of mainland China. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 40(3): 260-271. [details] Available for editors additional source Glover, E. A.; Taylor, J. D. (2010). Needles and pins: acicular crystalline periostracal calcification in venerid bivalves (Bivalvia: Veneridae). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 76(2): 157-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyp054 [details] additional source Kappner, I.; Bieler, R. (2006). Phylogeny of venus clams (Bivalvia: Venerinae) as inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 40(2): 317-331., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.006 [details] Available for editors redescription 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. [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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