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Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941
489105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:489105)
unaccepted (spelling emended by ICZN Opinion 2429)
Family
Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 † · unaccepted > superseded rank
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Purchon, R. D. (1941). On the biology and relationships of the lamellibranch <i>Xylophaga dorsalis</i> (Turton). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 25: 1-39., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/1181/1/On_the_biology_and_relationships_of_the_lamellibranch_Xylophaga_dorsalis_%28Turton%29.pdf
page(s): 32, 35 [details]
page(s): 32, 35 [details]
Nomenclature Original spelling Xylophaginidae, corrected to Xylophaginae by Turner (1955).
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to...
Nomenclature Original spelling Xylophaginidae, corrected to Xylophaginae by Turner (1955). [details]
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to...
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to avoid homonymy with the family name Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (based on Xylophagus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]. However, under ICZN Art. 55.3.1, a change in spelling can be done only by the Commission, which has to be petitioned to amend the spelling of the bivalve name. [details]
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Purchon, R. D. (1941). On the biology and relationships of the lamellibranch <i>Xylophaga dorsalis</i> (Turton). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 25: 1-39., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/1181/1/On_the_biology_and_relationships_of_the_lamellibranch_Xylophaga_dorsalis_%28Turton%29.pdf
page(s): 32, 35 [details]
basis of record Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]
additional source Distel, D. L.; Amin, M.; Burgoyne, A.; Linton, E.; Mamangkey, G.; Morrill, W.; Nove, J.; Wood, N.; Yang, J. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of Pholadoidea Lamarck, 1809 supports a single origin for xylotrophy (wood feeding) and xylotrophic bacterial endosymbiosis in Bivalvia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61(2): 245-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.019 [details]
redescription 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. [details]
page(s): 32, 35 [details]
basis of record Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184. [details]
additional source Distel, D. L.; Amin, M.; Burgoyne, A.; Linton, E.; Mamangkey, G.; Morrill, W.; Nove, J.; Wood, N.; Yang, J. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of Pholadoidea Lamarck, 1809 supports a single origin for xylotrophy (wood feeding) and xylotrophic bacterial endosymbiosis in Bivalvia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61(2): 245-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.019 [details]
redescription 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. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Classification Xylophagidae has often been treated as a subfamily of Pholadidae but Distel et al. (2011) showed it is more closely related to Teredinidae than to Pholadidae and Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012) treated it as a full family. [details]Nomenclature Original spelling Xylophaginidae, corrected to Xylophaginae by Turner (1955). [details]
Nomenclature Turner (in Moore, ed., 1969: 721) suggested to emend the name of the (sub)family to Xylophaga-inae / -idae in order to avoid homonymy with the family name Xylophagidae Fallén, 1810 (based on Xylophagus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]. However, under ICZN Art. 55.3.1, a change in spelling can be done only by the Commission, which has to be petitioned to amend the spelling of the bivalve name. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | dødvedfluer | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | daudvedfluger | [details] |
| Swedish | vedflugor | [details] |
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xylophaginae) (from synonym Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 †)
To Genbank (from synonym Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 †)
To ITIS
To Genbank (from synonym Xylophaginae Purchon, 1941 †)
To ITIS
