Basterotia

Basterotia
Basterotia arcula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Galeommatida
Family:	Basterotiidae
Genus:	Basterotia Hörnes, 1859
Type species
†Basterotia corbuloides M. Hörnes, 1859
Synonyms
† Basterotia (Basterotella) Olsson & Harbison, 1953 Eucharis Récluz, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Eucharis Latreille, 1804 [Hymenoptera]) Harlea Gray, 1842 (Declared nomen oblitum, and Basterotia declared nomen protectum, by Petit (2012))

Basterotia is a genus of small white bivalves in the family Basterotiidae.^[1]

This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.^[1]

Species[]

• (H. Adams, 1871)
• † Cossmann & Peyrot, 1914
• Melvill, 1898
• † Cossmann & Peyrot, 1909
• (Deshayes in Maillard, 1863)
• Durham, 1950
• Goto, Hamamura & Kato, 2011
• Cosel, 1995
• Dall, 1899
• † M. Hörnes, 1859
• (Recluz, 1850)
• Dall, 1903
• (A. Adams, 1864)
• (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
• (Deshayes in Maillard, 1863)
• Coan, 1999
• E. A. Smith, 1890
• G. B. Sowerby III, 1894
• Coan, 1999
• (Jordan, 1936)
• Nowell-Usticke, 1971
• (Hanley, 1843)
• (A. Adams, 1864)
• (A. Adams, 1864)
• (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1910)
• G. B. Sowerby III, 1897

Synonyms

• Basterotia angulata (S. V. Wood, 1857): synonym of (S. V. Wood, 1857)
• Basterotia caledonica (P. Fischer, 1886): synonym of Basterotia angulata (H. Adams, 1871)
• Basterotia dubia (Lamy, 1925): synonym of Basterotia angulata (H. Adams, 1871)
• Basterotia ecuadoriana Olsson, 1961: synonym of Basterotia peninsularis (E. K. Jordan, 1936)
• Basterotia hertleini Durham, 1950: synonym of Basterotia peninsularis (E. K. Jordan, 1936)
• Basterotia spaldingi (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1925): synonym of Basterotia arcula Melvill, 1898
• Basterotia trapezium Yokoyama, 1920: synonym of Paramya recluzi (A. Adams, 1864): synonym of Basterotia recluzi'' (A. Adams, 1864)

References[]

• Olsson A.A. & Harbison A. (1953). Pliocene Mollusca of southern Florida with special reference to those from North Saint Petersburg. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8: 1-457, pls. 1-65.
• 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[]

• Hörnes M. (1859). [Charaktere eines neuen Bivalven-Geschlechtes. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien. 9: 71-72]
• Récluz, C. A. (1850). Monographie d'un nouveau genre de coquilles bivalves, G. Eucharis. Journal de Conchyliologie. 1(2): 164-169
• Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p
• Goto, R.; Hamamura, Y.; Kato, M. (2011). Morphological and ecological adaptation of Basterotia bivalves (Galeommatoidea: Sportellidae) to symbiotic association with burrowing echiuran worms. Zoological Science. 28 (3): 225-234