Panopea (bivalve)

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Panopea
Temporal range: Triassic – Present
Panopea zelandica.JPG
Panopea zelandica
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Adapedonta
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Ménard, 1807
Species

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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[]

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Extinct species within this genus include:[4]

  • Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) (extinct Miocene fossil)[5]
  • Martin 1859
  • Panopea dockensis Olsson and Petit 1964[6]
  • Conrad 1835
  • Michelotti 1861
  • Brongniart, 1822
  • Sowerby 1814
  • Geinitz 1857
  • Martin 1859
  • Forbes 1846
  • Gabb 1864
  • Lundgren 1895
  • Deshayes 1857

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. ^ a b Serge Gofas (2012). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Panopea Ménard, 1807". MolluscaBase. 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 & V. M. Moreno-Rivera (2010). "Genetic and morphological variation of Northeast Pacific Panopea clams: evolutionary implications". . 29 (2): 327–335. doi:10.2983/035.029.0207. S2CID 86739843.
  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. S2CID 84189390. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-09.
  6. ^ "Fossilworks: Panopea dockensis". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

External links[]

  • Media related to Panopea at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Panopea at Wikispecies
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