Galapagos Species Database

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Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)

Bivalvo, Bivalve

Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Bivalvia

Order
Adapedonta

Superfamily
Hiatelloidea

Family
Hiatellidae

Genus
Hiatella

Species
arctica

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Biapholius spinosus Leach, 1822, Byssomia crispa Danilo & Sandri, 1856, Chama aculeata Strøm, 1768, Didonta bicarinata Schumacher, 1817, Hiatella arctica f. laccida Gould, 1861, Hiatella arctica f. spinifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1875), Hiatella arenacea (E. A. Smith, 1910), Hiatella biaperta Daudin Bosc, 1801, Hiatella lirata (E. A. Smith, 1910), Hiatella monoperta Bosc, 1801, Hiatella oblonga W. Turton, 1822, Hiatella orientalis (Yokoyama, 1920), Hiatella pholadis (Linnaeus, 1771), Hiatella solida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834), Hiatella striata (Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802), Hypogaea barbata Poli, 1795, Mya arctica Linnaeus, 1767, Mya byssifera Fabricius, 1780, Mytilus pholadis Linnaeus, 1771, Mytilus praecisus Montagu, 1803, Petricola awana Yokoyama, 1924, Petricola linguatula Lamarck, 1818, Rhomboides rugosus var. aculeata Scacchi, 1836, Saxicava acuta de Folin in de Folin & Périer, 1867, Saxicava arctica (Linnaeus, 1767), Saxicava arctica var. abbreviata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896, Saxicava arctica var. dilatata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896, Saxicava arctica var. inermis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896, Saxicava arenacea E. A. Smith, 1910, Saxicava australis Lamarck, 1818, Saxicava azaria Dall, 1881, Saxicava chilensis Hupé, 1854, Saxicava clavis Valenciennes, 1846, Saxicava conchotrypa Philippi, 1845, Saxicava distorta Say, 1822, Saxicava flaccida Gould, 1861, Saxicava frigida Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889, Saxicava gallicana Lamarck, 1818, Saxicava groenlandica Potiez & Michaud, 1844, Saxicava guerini Hanley, 1843, Saxicava hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938, Saxicava hiatella Chenu, 1862, Saxicava initialis de Folin in de Folin & Périer, 1867, Saxicava insita Conrad, 1869, Saxicava lebruni Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889, Saxicava lirata E. A. Smith, 1910, Saxicava macrodon Philippi, 1851, Saxicava mollis Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889, Saxicava orientalis Yokoyama, 1920, Saxicava petitii G. B. Sowerby II, 1875, Saxicava pholadis (Linnaeus, 1771), Saxicava pholadis gastrochaenoidea Carpenter, 1864, Saxicava purpurascens G. B. Sowerby I, 1834, Saxicava rietensis W. H. Turton, 1932(Horton et al., 2021); Hiatella solida (Sowerby, 1834); LACM: 34-20, 34-61 (fide Kaiser, 1997)

Origin: Native

References

  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Kaiser, K.L. (1997) The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos. Kaiser, K. L. (1997). The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos /. In The recent molluscan marine fauna of the Islas Galápagos / (p. 76). https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129924.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Hiatella arctica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10587. Accessed 1 November 2026.