Thraciidae
Appearance
Thraciidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Superorder: | Anomalodesmata |
Superfamily: | Thracioidea |
Family: | Thraciidae Stoliczka, 1870 |
Genera | |
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Thraciidae is a taxonomic family of small saltwater clams, marine bivalves in the order Anomalodesmata.
Selected genera and species
Genera and species within the family Thraciidae include:
- Asthenothaerus Carpenter, 1864
- Asthenothaerus diegensis (Dall, 1915)
- Asthenothaerus hemphilli Dall, 1886
- Asthenothaerus villosior Carpenter, 1864
- Bushia Dall, 1886
- Bushia elegans (Dall, 1886)
- Bushia rushii (Pilsbry, 1897)
- Cyathodonta Conrad, 1849
- Lampeia MacGinitie, 1959
- Lampeia adamsi (MacGinitie, 1959)
- Parvithracia Finlay, 1927
- Parvithracia cuneata Powell, 1937
- Parvithracia suteri Finlay, 1927
- Thracia Leach in Blainville, 1824
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Sartori, A. F. ; Domaneschi, O., The functional morphology of the Antarctic bivalve Thracia meridionalis Smith, 1885 (Anomalodesmata: Thraciidae), Journal of Molluscan Studies, v. 71, p. 199-210, 2005