WoRMS name details
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 superseded rank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]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xylophagidae Purchon, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489105 on 2025-04-07
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
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]
Taxonomy
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]
Other
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
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] |
