Circomphalus

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Kingdom Animalia Subclass Heterodonta Family Veneridae Rank Genus		Class Bivalvia Superfamily Veneroidea Phylum Mollusca Order Veneroida

Similar Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus, Lioconcha, Periglypta, Pitar, Dosinia

Circomphalus is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

Fossil records

The genus Circomphalus is known from the Miocene to the Recent periods (age range: from 15.97 to 0.0 million years ago).

Species within this genus, according to ITIS, include:

Circomphalus callimorphus (Dall, 1902)

Circomphalus casina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Circomphalus fordi (Yates, 1890)

Circomphalus strigillinus (Dall, 1902)

According to WoRMS, the species are:

Circomphalus disjectus (Perry, 1811)

Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus (Dillwyn, 1817)

Circomphalus hiraseanus (Kuroda, 1930)

Circomphalus yatei (Gray, 1835)

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