According to the
World Register of Marine Species, this genus has eight extant species. There are nine fossil species listed in
Fossilworks, five of which are not extant: •
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) •
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. ==References==