Hiatellidae

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title: "Hiatellidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hiatellidae", "bivalve-families"] description: "Family of bivalves" topic_path: "general/hiatellidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatellidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of bivalves ::

| taxon = Hiatellidae | image = Hiatella arctica2.jpg | image_caption = One whole shell with periostracum and a single larger valve of Hiatella arctica | parent_authority = J.E. Gray, 1824 | authority = Gray, 1824 | display_parents = 2 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = Glycimeridae

Hiatellidae is a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. This family is placed in the order Adapedonta.

Genera

Genera within the family Hiatellidae include:

• Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801
• Hiatella Bosc, 1801
• Panomya Gray, 1857
• Panopea Menard, 1807
• Saxicavella P. Fischer, 1878

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

References

1. {{WRMS species. 251. ''Hiatellidae'' Gray, 1824. 1 January 2012
2. 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. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.

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