Glossidae

Glossidae
A view of the umbonal area of Glossus humanus , the oxheart clam
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Glossoidea
Family:	Glossidae Gray, 1847
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Isocardiidae J. E. Gray, 1840

Glossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea. ^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

The following genera and species are recognised in the family Glossidae:

• † Fissilunula Etheridge, 1902
  • † Fissilunula clarkei (C. Moore, 1870)
  • † Fissilunula coreenaensis Day, 2025
• Glossus
  • † Glossus abichianus (Romanovsky, 1890)
  • † Glossus eichwaldianus (Romanovsky, 1890)
  • † Glossus gigantaeus (Ovechkin, 1954)
  • Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – oxheart clam
  • † Glossus lunulatus (Nyst, 1835)
  • † Glossus major (Hölzl, 1958)
  • † Glossus neocomiensis (Agassiz, 1842)
  • † Glossus olearii (O. Semper, 1861)
  • † Glossus subtransversus (A. d'Orbigny, 1852)
• Meiocardia H. and A. Adams, 1857
  • Meiocardia cumingi (A. Adams, 1864)
  • † Meiocardia faxensis (Lundgren, 1867)
  • † Meiocardia floridana (Dall, 1900)
  • Meiocardia hawaiana Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
  • † Meiocardia incognita Zubkovitsch, 1961
  • Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)
  • † Meiocardia palmerae Nicol, 1968
  • Meiocardia samarangiae F. R. Bernard, Y. Cai & B. Morton, 1993
  • Meiocardia sanguineomaculata (Dunker, 1882)
  • † Meiocardia septemcostata Wanner & Hahn, 1935
  • † Meiocardia subcumingii (H. Woodward, 1879)
  • † Meiocardia susukii (Squires & Advocate, 1986)
  • Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)
• † Miocardiopsis Glibert, 1936
  • † Miocardiopsis carinata (Deshayes, 1829)
  • † Miocardiopsis chonioides (Cossmann, 1886)
  • † Miocardiopsis eocaenica (Bayan, 1873)
  • † Miocardiopsis isocardioides (Deshayes, 1858)
  • † Miocardiopsis laciniosa (Staadt, 1913)
  • † Miocardiopsis loustaui (Cossmann, 1886)
  • † Miocardiopsis subquadrata (Cossmann, 1886)
  • † Miocardiopsis tapina (Cossmann, 1886)
• † Petalocardia É. Vincent, 1925
  • † Petalocardia pectinifera (J. De C. Sowerby, 1823)

References

1. Matsukuma, A.; Habe, T. (1995). "Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia)". Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.
2. "Cretaceous Atlas of Ancient Life | Glossidae". www.cretaceousatlas.org. Retrieved 2022-12-01.