Verticordia (bivalve)
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| Verticordia ouricuri (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Superorder: | Anomalodesmata |
| Superfamily: | Verticordioidea |
| Family: | Verticordiidae |
| Genus: | Verticordia J.C.Sowerby |
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Verticordia is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Verticordiidae. [1]>
They are mostly small, live in deep water and have roughly equal-sized, well-inflated, fragile shells which are pearly inside.[2][3]
Species
[edit]The following is a list of species according to the World Register of Marine Species:[1]
- Verticordia australiensis E.A.Smith
- Verticordia bordaensis Cotton & Godfrey
- † Verticordia cardiiformis J.C.Sowerby
- † Verticordia densicostata P. Marshall
- † Verticordia excavata Pritchard, 1901
- Verticordia expansa Prashad
- Verticordia granulifera (Verrill)
- Verticordia guineensis Thiele
- Verticordia inornata Jaeckel & Thiele
- Verticordia neozelanica (extinct) (Suter)
- Verticordia ouricuri Oliveira & Absalão
- † Verticordia parisiensis Deshayes, 1856
- † Verticordia pectinata Tate, 1887
- Verticordia perversa Dall
- Verticordia quadrata E.A.Smith
- † Verticordia rhomboidea Tate, 1887
- Verticordia seguenzae Dall
- Verticordia tasmanica May
- Verticordia tenerrima Jaeckel & Thiele
- Verticordia woodii E.A.Smith
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Verticordia J. de C. Sowerby, 1844". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ Abbott, R. Tucker; Morris, Percy A. (2001). A field guide to shells : Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0618164391.
- ^ de Castro Oliveira, Cléo Dilnei; Absalão, Ricardo Silva (24 November 2009). "Review of the Septibranchia (Pelecypoda: Mollusca) from deep sea of Campos Basin, Brazil: family Verticordiidae, with description of a new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90 (4): 809–817. doi:10.1017/S0025315409991184. S2CID 84338102.
External links
[edit]- Poutiers, J. M.; Bernard, F. R. (1995). Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 107-187
- [ -http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213]
- Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online