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Dilemma (bivalve)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Bivalvia

Order
  
Pholadomyoida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Anomalodesmata

Family
  
Poromyidae

Dilemma is a genus of marine bivalves of the family Poromyidae. The genus is remarkable for encompassing predators of isopods and ostracods, unusual for sessile molluscs.

Species

  • Dilemma frumarkernorum Leal, 2008
  • Dilemma inexpectatum (Crozier, 1966)
  • Dilemma japonicum Sasaki & Leal, 2008
  • Dilemma spectralis Leal, 2008

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