The family is monogeneric. See description below.
 

« Shell regular, inequivalve, inequilateral, transversely oblong, with a flattened upper valve and a convex lower valve; two cardinal teeth, oblong, divergent and unequal at the upper valve, two oblong fossae at the other valve; ligament internal. The Pandorae are fairly thin, flattened, regular […] nacreous inside and provided with a hinge which, in some species, is similar to that of some flattened Corbules. » – G. P. Deshayes: Histoire naturelle des vers vol.III(2), Paris 1832, p.696.