Meretricinae Gray, 1847

kingdom Animalia > phylum Mollusca > class Bivalvia > subclass Autobranchia > infraclass Heteroconchia > subterclass Euheterodonta > superorder Imparidentia > order Venerida > superfamily Veneroidea > family Veneridae > subfamily Meretricinae

RankSubfamily
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:510755
Environments marine, brackish, freshwater, terrestrial

Child taxa

Genus Eutivela unaccepted
Genus Gratelupia
Genus Bassinaria unaccepted
Genus Grateloupia unaccepted
Genus Tivelina
Genus Eomeretrix
Genus Meretrissa
Genus Aeora
Genus Titomaya
Genus Meretrix
Genus Tivela
Genus Gomphina
Genus Gomphinella unaccepted
Genus Trigonella junior homonym
Genus Pachydesma unaccepted
Genus Cytherea unaccepted
Genus Planitivela unaccepted
Genus Cytheraea unaccepted

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,549
Species level 1,417
Absence records 0
Species 38
Taxa 42
Datasets 58
Time range 1758 - 2023

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 1,108
Not marine 0
Marine unsure 0
No coordinates 1,108
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,400 0
decimalLatitude 1,106 0
decimalLongitude 1,106 2
eventDate 1,016 0
maximumDepthInMeters 2,554 0
minimumDepthInMeters 2,529 0
occurrenceStatus 2,206 0
scientificNameID 1,860 3

Spatial issues

Records on land 631
More than 20 km from shore 82
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 5

Distribution

Environmental conditions

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Published 2025-03-11
256
mabik_mo
Published 2024-12-18
199
UF Invertebrate Zoology
Published 2024-02-12
155
SINBIOTA Marine Data
Published 2021-07-02
128
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records
Published 2022-06-08
115
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks
Published 2025-03-11
92
Mollusca Collection - Museu Nacional/UFRJ
Published 2024-05-03
80
DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)
Published 2023-10-01
51
IndOBIS Dataset (30001-32000)
Published 2022-01-05
38
IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
Published
37