Semelidae

Taxobox
name = Semelidae


image_caption = The peppery furrow shell, "Scrobicularia Plana"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Heterodonta
ordo = Veneroida
superfamilia = Tellinoidea
familia = Semelidae
familia_authority = Stoliczka, 1870
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

The Semelidae are a family of clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the order Veneroida.

Genera

*"Abra" Lamarck, 1818
**"Abra aequalis" (Say, 1822)
**"Abra alba"
**"Abra cadabra"
**"Abra californica" Kundsen, 1970
**"Abra lioica" (Dall, 1881)
**"Abra longicallis" Sacchi, 1836
**"Abra nitida" (O. F. Mueller, 1776)
**"Abra pacifica" Dall, 1915
**"Abra prismatica"
**"Abra profundorum" E. A. Smith, 1885
**"Abra tenuis" (Montagu, 1818)
**"Abra tepocana" Dall, 1915
*"Cumingia" G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
**"Cumingia californica" Conrad, 1837
**"Cumingia coarctata" G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
**"Cumingia tellinoides" (Conrad, 1831)
*"Ervilia" Turton, 1822
**"Ervilia bisculpta"
**"Ervilia castanea" (Montagu, 1803)
**"Ervilia concentrica" (Holmes, 1860)
**"Ervilia nitens" (Montagu, 1808)
**"Ervilia sandwichensis"
**"Ervilia subcancellata" E. A. Smith, 1885
*"Leptomya" A. Adams, 1864
**"Leptomya retiara aucklandica" Powell
**"Leptomya retiara retiara" (Hutton, 1885)
*"Scrobicularia" Schumacher, 1815
**"Scrobicularia plana" - Peppery furrow shell
*"Semele" Schumacher, 1817
**"Semele bellastriata" (Conrad, 1837)
**"Semele brambleyae" (Powell, 1967)
**"Semele decisa" (Conrad, 1837)
**"Semele incongrua" Carpenter, 1864
**"Semele proficua" (Pulteney, 1799)
**"Semele pulchra" (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
**"Semele purpurascens" (Gmelin, 1791)
**"Semele rubicola" Dall, 1915
**"Semele rubropicta" Dall, 1871
**"Semele rupicola" Dall, 1915
**"Semele venusta" (Reeve, 1853)
*"Semelina" Dall, 1900
**"Semelina nuculoides" (Conrad, 1841)
*"Theora" H. Adams and A. Adams, 1856
**"Theora lubrica" Gould, 1861

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1