Rangia (bivalve)
Appearance
Rangia | |
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Shell of Rangia flexuosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Venerida |
Superfamily: | Mactroidea |
Family: | Mactridae |
Genus: | Rangia Desmoulins, 1832 |
Synonyms | |
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Rangia is a genus of bivalve molluscs or clams in the subfamily Mactrinae of the family Mactridae.[1] [2]
Species
There are three species:[2]
- Rangia cuneata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) – Atlantic rangia
- Rangia flexuosa (Conrad, 1840) – Brown rangia
- Rangia mendica (Gould, 1851)
- Synonyms
- Rangia cyrenoides Des Moulins, 1832: synonym of Rangia cuneata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
References
- ^ "Rangia Desmoulins, 1832". ITIS Report. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ a b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2021). "Rangia Desmoulins, 1832". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
External links
- Sowerby, G. B. I. (1821-1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. Published in 42 numbers.
- Gill, T. (1895). Rangia the proper name of the mactroid genus Gnathodon. The Nautilus. 8(9): 102-103
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