Periglypta

Periglypta Temporal range: 48.6–0.012  Ma [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The shells of Periglypta listeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914
Type species
Venus puerpera Linnaeus, 1771
Species
See text
Synonyms
Antigona (Periglypta)Jukes-Browne, 1914 (original rank) CythereaRöding, 1798 (Invalid: junior homonym of CythereaFabricius, 1794 [Diptera])

Periglypta is a genus of bivalves in the subfamily Venerinae of the family Veneridae. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus has eight extant species. ^[4] There are nine fossil species listed in Fossilworks, five of which are not extant: ^[1]

• † Periglypta caesarina (W.H. Dall, 1903)
• † Periglypta caribbeana Anderson, 1927
• Periglypta corbis (Lamarck, 1818)
• Periglypta crispata (Deshayes, 1854)
• Periglypta exclathrata (Sacco, 1900)
• Periglypta listeri (J.E. Gray, 1838) – Princess Venus clam
• Periglypta multicostata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
• Periglypta puerpera (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Periglypta reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758) ^[5]
• † Periglypta tamiamensis A.A. Olsson & R.E. Petit, 1964
• † Periglypta tarquinia (W.H. Dall, 1900)
• Periglypta valentichscotti Thach, 2021
• † Periglypta weegeeree Darragh & Kendrick, 2010

In addition, Markus Huber (2010) mentioned that Periglypta and Antigona are synonyms, but Chen et al. (2011) rejected this opinion. ^{[4] [6]}

References

1. "Periglypta Jukes-Browne 1914". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
2. Abbott, R.T.; Morris, P.A. (1995). A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.. New York City (United States): Houghton Mifflin. p. 60.
3. "Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
4. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2013-06-08). "Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2017-02-11.
5. Lai, Kin-Yang; Ou-Yang, Sheng-Chih (1996). "The shells from Peng-hu Islands". Annual Taiwan Museum (in Traditional Chinese). 39: 315–386. Archived from the original on 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
6. Chen, Jun; Li, Qi; Kong, Lingfeng; Zheng, Xiaodong (2011-02-25). "Molecular phylogeny of venus clams (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Veneridae) with emphasis on the systematic position of taxa along the coast of mainland China". Zoologica Scripta . 40 (3): 260–271. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00471.x. S2CID   82676170.

• 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.
• 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.

External links

• Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
• Jukes-Browne, A. J. 1914. A Synopsis of the Family Veneridae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11: 58-74