Poromyidae

Taxobox
name = Poromyidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Anomalosdesmata
ordo = Pholadomyoida
familia = Poromyidae
familia_authority = Dall, 1886
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Cetoconcha"
"Dermatomya"
"Dilemma"
"Poromya"

Poromyidae is a family of marine bivalves of the order Pholadomyoida. The genus "Dilemma", described only in 2008, is remarkable for being a predator of copepods, unusual for sessile molluscs [Leal (2008)] .

Genera and species

* "Cetoconcha" Dall, 1889
** "Cetoconcha atypha" Verrill and Bush, 1898
** "Cetoconcha bulla" (Dall, 1881)
** "Cetoconcha malespinae" Ridewood, 1903
** "Cetoconcha margarita" (Dall, 1886)
** "Cetoconcha smithii" Dall, 1908
* "Dermatomya" Dall, 1889
** "Dermatomya buttoni" Dall, 1916
** "Dermatomya mactroides" (Dall, 1889)
* "Dilemma" Leal, 2008
** "Dilemma frumarkernorum" Leal, 2008
** "Dilemma inexpectatum" (Crozier, 1966)
** "Dilemma spectralis" Leal, 2008
* "Poromya" Forbes, 1844
** "Poromya albida" Dall, 1886
** "Poromya beringiana" (Dall, 1916)
** "Poromya elongata" Dall, 1886
** "Poromya granulata" (Nyst and Westendorp, 1839)
** "Poromya houbricki" Bernard, 1989
** "Poromya laevis" E. A. Smith, 1885
** "Poromya leonina" (Dall, 1916)
** "Poromya malespinae" (Ridewood, 1903)
** "Poromya neaeroides" Sequenza, 1876
** "Poromya neozelanica" (Dell, 1956)
** "Poromya rostrata" Rehder, 1943
** "Poromya tenuiconcha" (Dall, 1913)
** "Poromya tornata" (Jeffreys, 1876)
** "Poromya trosti" Strong and Hertlein, 1937

Footnotes

References

* (2008): A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species. "Zootaxa" 1764: 1–18. [http://www.shellmuseum.org/Leal_Dilemma_2008.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (1979): "New Zealand Mollusca". William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1