Periglypta

Periglypta is a genus of bivalves in the subfamily Venerinae of the family Veneridae.^[2][3][4]

Periglypta Temporal range: 48.6–0.012 Ma[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The shells of Periglypta listeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914
Type species
Venus puerpera Linnaeus, 1771
Species
See text
Synonyms
Antigona (Periglypta) Jukes-Browne, 1914 (original rank) Cytherea Röding, 1798 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera])

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus has eight extant species.^[4] There are nine fossil species listed in Fossilworks, five of which are not extant:^[1]

• †Periglypta caesarina (W.H. Dall, 1903)
• †Periglypta caribbeana Anderson, 1927
• Periglypta corbis (Lamarck, 1818)
• Periglypta crispata (Deshayes, 1854)
• Periglypta exclathrata (Sacco, 1900)
• Periglypta listeri (J.E. Gray, 1838) – Princess Venus clam
• Periglypta multicostata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
• Periglypta puerpera (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Periglypta reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758)^[5]
• †Periglypta tamiamensis A.A. Olsson & R.E. Petit, 1964
• †Periglypta tarquinia (W.H. Dall, 1900)
• Periglypta valentichscotti Thach, 2021
• †Periglypta weegeeree Darragh & Kendrick, 2010

In addition, Markus Huber (2010) mentioned that Periglypta and Antigona are synonyms, but Chen et al. (2011) rejected this opinion.^[4][6]