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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 188 [details]
original description
(of Tiria De Gregorio, 1886) De Gregorio, A. (1886). Nota intorno ad alcune conchiglie mediterranee viventi e fossili. <em>Il Naturalista Siciliano.</em> 5 (12): 259-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30388488
page(s): p. 263. [details]
basis of record
Morton B. 2007. The evolution of the watering pot shells (Bivalvia, Anomalodesmata: Clavagellidae and Penicillidae). <i>Records of the Western Australian Museum</i> 24: 19-64. [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy In his overview paper, Morton (2007) separated off a family Penicillidae for Penicillus, Brechites, Foegia, Nipponoclava, Kendrickiana and Humphreyia, from the Clavagelidae containing the extinct genus Clavagella and the extant genera Dacosta, Bryopa, Dianadema and Stirpulina. The tube or "crypt" in which these taxa live in the sediment, or attached to shells, etc., is formed in quite different ways in the two families, and Morton (2007) suggested that they evolved from distinct lyonsiid ancestors. This view is disregarded by Huber (2010) who finds this splitting exaggerated and considers all the Clavagellidae sensu Morton (2007) as subgenera of Clavagella Lamarck, 1818 [details]
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