Panopea abrupta

Panopea abrupta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myoida
Family: Hiatellidae
Genus: Panopea
Species: P. abrupta
Binomial name
Panopea abrupta
(Conrad, 1849)

Panopea abrupta is an extinct species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Hiatellidae. Between 1983 and 2010, this species of clam was confused with the Pacific Geoduck, Panopea generosa, in the scientific literature.[1]

References

  1. Vadopalas, B.; T.W. Pietsch; C.S. Friedman (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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
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