Panopea (bivalve)

Panopea
Temporal range: Triassic - Recent
Panopea zelandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myoida
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Ménard, 1807

Panopea is a genus of large marine bivalve molluscs or clams in the family Hiatellidae.[1] There are 10 described species in Panopea.[1] Many of them are known under the common name geoduck.

Extant species

Extinct species

Fossil shell of Panopea intermedia

Extinct species within this genus' include: [4]

The fossil record of the genus dates back to the Cretaceous (and maybe the Triassic) (age range: 242.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.

References

  1. 1 2 Serge Gofas (2012). P. Bouchet, S. Gofas & G. Rosenberg, eds. "Panopea Ménard, 1807". World Marine Mollusca database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  2. Rocha-Olivares, A., L. E. Calderon-Aguilera, E. A. Aragón-Noriega, N. C. Saavedra-Sotelo, and V. M. Moreno-Rivera (2010). "Genetic and morphological variation of Northeast Pacific Panopea clams: evolutionary implications". Journal of Shellfish Research. 29 (2): 327–335. doi:10.2983/035.029.0207.
  3. Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
  4. Paleobiology Database: Panopea
  5. Vadopalas B., Pietsch T. W. & Friedman C. S. (2010). "The proper name for the geoduck: resurrection of Panopea generosa Gould, 1850, from the synonymy of Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) (Bivalvia: Myoida: Hiatellidae)" (PDF). Malacologia. 52 (1): 169–173. doi:10.4002/040.052.0111.
  6. "Fossilworks: Panopea dockensis". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
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