Polititapes

Genus of bivalves

Polititapes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Polititapes
Chiamenti, 1900
Type species
Venus aurea Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
  • Aureitapes Chiamenti, 1900
  • Cyaneitapes Chiamenti, 1900
  • Paphia (Callistotapes) Sacco, 1900
  • Tapes (Callistotapes) Sacco, 1900
  • Tapes (Polititapes) Chiamenti, 1900 (original rank)
  • Venerupis (Polititapes) Chiamenti, 1900 (unaccepted rank)

Polititapes is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae, commonly known as carpet shells. [1]

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

  1. ^ a b 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
  • 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.
Taxon identifiers
Polititapes


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