''Hiatella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve

molluscs Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estim ...

in the family

Hiatellidae Hiatellidae is a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. This family is placed in the order Adapedonta.Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J. ...

Ecology

These bivalves are stationary suspension feeders. Some species bore into rock for shelter, others also live in rock but do not bore, instead they nestle in holes created by other organisms, or in other crevices. They may also live nestled within the holdfasts of

kelp Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. Despite its appearance, kelp is not a plant - it is a heterokont, a completely unrelated group of organisms. Kelp grows in "underwa ...

s, within other organisms such as sponges, or partly buried in a sandy sediment.

Species

The number of species in the genus is unclear, and their unequivocal identification can be difficult. The following species are listed in MolluscaBase/

WoRMS Worms may refer to: *Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs Places *Worms, Germany Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had ...

(2015): * '' Hiatella antarctica'' (Philippi, 1845) * '' Hiatella arctica'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

, 1767) (= ''Hiatella striata'' (Fleuriau, 1802) = ''Hiatella pholadis'' (

, 1771)) * '' Hiatella arenacea'' (E.A. Smith, 1910) * '' Hiatella australis'' (Lamarck, 1818) * '' Hiatella azaria'' Dall, 1881 * '' Hiatella rugosa'' (

, 1767) (= ''Hiatella gallicana'' (Lamarck, 1818)) * '' Hiatella glaciana'' * '' Hiatella pholadis'' * '' Hiatella striata'' Natural History - Mollusca - Saxicava

By molecular data, at least 13 different species of ''Hiatella'' were distinguished, but the correspondence between those taxa and the formal species names was not resolved.Laakkonen, Hanna; Strelkov, Petr; Väinölä, Risto (2015
Molecular lineage diversity and inter-oceanic biogeographical history in ''Hiatella'' (Mollusca, Bivalvia)
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Zoologica Scripta ''Zoologica Scripta'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal on systematic zoology, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It was established in 197 ...

'' 44: 383-402. DOI:10.1111/zsc.12105

References

Hiatellidae Bivalve genera Taxa named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc {{bivalve-stub