Solamen

Solamen
Shell of Solamen dollfusi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytilida
Superfamily:	Mytiloidea
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Solamen Iredale, 1924
Type species
Solamen rexIredale, 1924
Synonyms
MegacrenellaHabe & Ka. Ito, 1965

Solamen is a genus of saltwater, brackish water and freshwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Crenellinae of the family Mytilidae, the mussels. ^[1]

Species

• Solamen bulla (Dunker, 1857)
• Solamen columbianum (Dall, 1897)
• Solamen dollfusi (Dautzenberg, 1910)
• Solamen glandula (Totten, 1834)
• Solamen leanum (Dall, 1897)
• Solamen megas (Dall, 1902)
• Solamen persicum (E. A. Smith, 1906)
• Solamen recens (Tate, 1897)
• Solamen spectabile (A. Adams, 1862)
• Solamen striatissimum (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Solamen Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492085 on 2022-06-17

• 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

• Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49(3): 179-278.