Pandora (bivalve)

Pandora is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalves in the family Pandoridae.

Pandora
Shell of Pandora trilineata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Family:	Pandoridae
Genus:	Pandora Bruguière, 1797
Type species
Solen inaequivalvis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Calopodium Röding, 1798 Kennerleya P. Fischer, 1887 (unjustified emmendation for Kennerlia Carpenter, 1864) Kennerleyia Dall, 1903 (unjustified emmendation for Kennerlia Carpenter, 1864) Kennerlia Carpenter, 1864 Kennerlyia Dall, 1915 (unjustified emmendation for Kennerlia Carpenter, 1864) Pandora (Kennerlia) Carpenter, 1864 Pandora (Pandora) Bruguière, 1797· accepted, alternate representation Pandora (Pandorella) Conrad, 1863· accepted, alternate representation Pandorella Conrad, 1863 Trutina T. Brown, 1827

Species

• Pandora albida (Röding, 1798)
• Pandora arenosa Conrad, 1834
• Pandora aversa (Hedley, 1913)
• Pandora bilirata Conrad, 1855
• Pandora braziliensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
• Pandora brevifrons G. B. Sowerby I, 1835
• Pandora brevirostris Güller & Zelaya, 2016
• Pandora bushiana Dall, 1886
• Pandora carinata (Prashad, 1932)
• Pandora cumingii Hanley, 1861
• Pandora dissimilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1894
• Pandora filosa (Carpenter, 1864)
• Pandora flexuosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1822
• Pandora glacialis Leach, 1819
• Pandora gorii Rolán & Hernández, 2007
• Pandora gouldiana Dall, 1886
• Pandora granulata (Dall, 1915)
• Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pandora inflata Boss and Merrill, 1965
• Pandora inornata A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898
• Pandora oblonga G. B. Sowerby I, 1830
• Pandora otukai Habe, 1952
• Pandora patula (Tate, 1889)
• Pandora perangusta Preston, 1910
• Pandora pinna (Montagu, 1803)
• Pandora pulchella Yokoyama, 1926
• Pandora rachaelae Valentich-Scott & Skoglund, 2010
• Pandora radiata Sowerby, 1835
• Pandora sarahae Valentich-Scott & Skoglund, 2010
• Pandora sicula Lamy, 1934
• Pandora similis G. B. Sowerby III, 1897
• Pandora sinica F.-S. Xu, 1992
• Pandora trilineata Say, 1822
• Pandora uncifera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932
• Pandora wardiana A. Adams, 1859

Synonyms

• Pandora cornuta C. B. Adams, 1852: synonym of Clidiophora cornuta (C. B. Adams, 1852) (original combination)
• Pandora forresterensis Willett, 1918: synonym of Pandora wardiana A. Adams, 1860
• Pandora grandis Dall, 1877: synonym of Pandora wardiana A. Adams, 1860
• Pandora punctata Conrad, 1837: synonym of Heteroclidus punctatus (Conrad, 1837) (original combination)

External links

• Media related to Pandora (genus) at Wikimedia Commons
• Bruguière J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344
• Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
• Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls
• Fischer, P. (1880-1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls.
• [s://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98240 Dall, W. H. (1890-1903). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 3(1)]
• Dall, W. H. (1915). A review of some bivalve shells of the group Anatinacea from the west coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 49 (2116): 441–456