Poromyidae

Poromyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Anomalodesmata
Order:	Pholadomyoida
Family:	Poromyidae Dall, 1886
Genera
Cetoconcha Dermatomya Dilemma Poromya

Poromyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Pholadomyoida. The genus Dilemma, described in 2008, is remarkable for being a predator of copepods, which is very unusual for a sessile mollusc.^[1]

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Poromyidae include:

• Cetoconcha Dall, 1889
• Dermatomya Dall, 1889
  • Dermatomya buttoni Dall, 1916
  • Dermatomya mactroides (Dall, 1889)
• Dilemma Leal, 2008
• Poromya Forbes, 1844
  • Poromya albida Dall, 1886
  • Poromya beringiana (Dall, 1916)
  • Poromya elongata Dall, 1886
  • Poromya granulata (Nyst and Westendorp, 1839)
  • Poromya houbricki Bernard, 1989
  • Poromya laevis E. A. Smith, 1885
  • Poromya leonina (Dall, 1916)
  • Poromya malespinae (Ridewood, 1903)
  • Poromya neaeroides Sequenza, 1876
  • Poromya neozelanica (Dell, 1956)
  • Poromya rostrata Rehder, 1943
  • Poromya tenuiconcha (Dall, 1913)
  • Poromya tornata (Jeffreys, 1876)
  • Poromya trosti Strong and Hertlein, 1937

References

1. Leal J. H. (2008). "A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa 1764: 1–18. PDF fulltext

• Sasaki T. & Leal J. H. (2008). "Dilemma japonicum new species (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae): A new record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific". The Nautilus 122: 166-170. PDF fulltext
• Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1