Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Alternative spellings: Glicimeris, Glycimeris
Synonyms: Axinaea Poli 1791, Axinaeoderma Poli 1795, Axinea Poli 1791, Cardium (Pectunculus) Lamarck 1799, Glycymeris (Axinea) Poli 1791, Glycymeris (Glycymerula) Finlay and Marwick 1937, Glycymeris (Manaia), Glycymeris (Tuceta) Röding 1798, Glycymerula Finlay and Marwick 1937, Manaia , Pectunculigenus Renier 1807, Pectunculopsis Ebert 1890, Pectunculus Lamarck 1799, Pseudaxinaea Monterosato 1892, Tuceta Röding 1798, Veletuceta Iredale 1931
Parent taxon: Glycymeridinae according to R. L. Squires 2010
See also Adegoke 1977, Beu 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, da Silva Forti 1969, del Rio 1992, Dockery 1982, DuBar 1958, Durham 1944, Eames 1951, Faustman 1964, Fleming 1966, Gardner 1945, Glenn 1904, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hendy 2007, Hertlein and Grant 1972, Hickman 2023, Kendrick and Vartak 2007, Kensley and Pether 1986, Marasti 1973, Maury 1912, Maury 1917, Mikkelsen 2006, Moerdijk and van Nieulande 2000, Moore 1983, Nagao 1928, Rivera 1957, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Stanton 1895, Stenzel et al. 1957, Tashiro and Kozai 1982, Tiwari 2001, Turner 1938, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Africarca, Costaglycymeris, Ewekoromeris, Glycymeris barbarensis, Glycymerita, Melaxinaea, Postligata, Tucetilla, Tucetonella
Subtaxa: Axinaea barbarensis Axinaea viamediae Axinaea wyomingensis Axinea conradi Axinea idonea Glycymeris (Axinactis) Glycymeris (Axinola) Glycymeris (Chevronia) Glycymeris (Ewekoromeris) Glycymeris (Glycymeris) Glycymeris (Glycymerula) modesta Glycymeris (Grandaxinea) Glycymeris (Hanaia) Glycymeris (Pseudoveletuceta) Glycymeris (Tucetilla) Glycymeris (Veletuceta) Glycymeris americana Glycymeris anteparilis Glycymeris arctata Glycymeris arquilloensis Glycymeris baumanni Glycymeris boguensis Glycymeris brevirostris Glycymeris cainozoica Glycymeris canoa Glycymeris caracoli Glycymeris carbasina Glycymeris castaneus Glycymeris chehalisensis Glycymeris cisshuensis Glycymeris colchaguensis Glycymeris conradi Glycymeris cookei Glycymeris cor Glycymeris corteziana Glycymeris crashleyi Glycymeris crescentensis Glycymeris decussata Glycymeris delessertii Glycymeris democraciana Glycymeris depressa Glycymeris dispar Glycymeris dunkeri Glycymeris eumita Glycymeris filosa Glycymeris fulleri Glycymeris gabrielensis Glycymeris geinitzii Glycymeris gembacanus Glycymeris globosa Glycymeris glycymeris Glycymeris gordoni Glycymeris grayana Glycymeris grewingki Glycymeris gwadarensis Glycymeris hedleyi Glycymeris hummi Glycymeris ibari Glycymeris idensis Glycymeris idonea Glycymeris intercostata Glycymeris jacquoti Glycymeris kashewarowi Glycymeris larvata Glycymeris linda Glycymeris lisbonensis Glycymeris longior Glycymeris maculata Glycymeris martini Glycymeris microsulci Glycymeris mississippiensis Glycymeris naiadis Glycymeris nigeriensis Glycymeris ovata Glycymeris pacifica Glycymeris parilis Glycymeris pectunculus Glycymeris pentzana Glycymeris peruvianus Glycymeris pilosa Glycymeris pulvinata Glycymeris puruensis Glycymeris quilonensis Glycymeris rectidorsalis Glycymeris reevi Glycymeris septentrionalis Glycymeris shastensis Glycymeris shrimptoni Glycymeris sindiensis Glycymeris sloani Glycymeris soriensis Glycymeris spectralis Glycymeris stamina Glycymeris staminea Glycymeris striatularis Glycymeris suwannensis Glycymeris tenuisulcatus Glycymeris terebratularis Glycymeris thomsoni Glycymeris trigonella Glycymeris tumefactus Glycymeris vancouverensis Glycymeris viticola Glycymeris waipipiensis Glycymeris winlockensis Glycymeris woodsi Glycymeris wrigleyi Glycymeris yoloensis Pectunculopsis moguntina Pectunculus alternans Pectunculus carolinensis Pectunculus charlestonensis Pectunculus corbuloides Pectunculus cuneus Pectunculus idoneus Pectunculus lima Pectunculus nuculatus Pectunculus ovatus Pectunculus perplanus Pectunculus polymorphus Pectunculus siouxensis Pectunculus subauriculatus Pectunculus subtogoensis Pectunculus subtrigonalis Pectunculus trigonella Pseudaxinaea violascens Veletuceta flammeus
Type: Pectunculus nuculatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (4), the Bahamas (3), Belgium (1), Bermuda (5), Brazil (1), Cape Verde (1), Chile (2), Djibouti (4), Dominica (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), Haiti (3), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Israel (1), Italy (5), Japan (7), Kenya (2), Mexico (9), Morocco (3), New Zealand (1), Peru (8), Saudi Arabia (4), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (2), Spain (13), Sudan (1), Taiwan (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (72: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Yemen (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (3), Belgium (9), Chile (3), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (11), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (2), Greece (4), Haiti (1), Iceland (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (5), Japan (15), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (4), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (8), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (58: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2), Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (6), Argentina (4), Australia (5), Austria (8), Belgium (18), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (8), Bulgaria (6), Chile (6), Colombia (10), Cuba (1), Cyprus (5), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Ecuador (1), Fiji (2), France (4), Germany (10), Greece (3), Grenada (4), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (2), Iraq (1), Italy (7), Japan (48), Libya (1), Malta (3), Mexico (4), Moldova (4), Morocco (3), New Zealand (6), Pakistan (1), Panama (17), Peru (2), Poland (14), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (11), Slovakia (4), Somalia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (3), United States (39: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Austria (3), Bulgaria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (4), France (34), Germany (2), Haiti (1), Hungary (4), Italy (2), Japan (26), New Zealand (11), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Somalia (2), United States (69: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (4), Australia (9), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (3), Croatia (1), France (8), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (3), New Zealand (4), Nigeria (7), Panama (3), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (184: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of Argentina (5), Australia (1), Austria (2), Belgium (5), Denmark (7), Germany (3), India (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (45: Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia), France (1), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Iraq (1), Japan (66), Mexico (1), Mozambique (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (4), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (205: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 1484 collections including 1805 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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