Pandora (bivalve) explained

Pandora is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalves in the family Pandoridae.^[1]

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^{[2] [3]}
• 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

• • 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

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pandora Bruguière, 1797. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138310 on 2021-11-30
2. [W.H. Dall|Dall W. H.]
3. Simpson C. T. 1885-1889. Contributions to the Mollusca of Florida. Proceeding Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, volume V., 45-72. page 69.