Glossus (genus)

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Kingdom Animalia Class Bivalvia Family Glossidae		Phylum Mollusca Order Myoida Rank Genus

Similar Glossus humanus, Trachycardium isocardia, Laevicardium, Glycymeris, Acanthocardia

Glossus is a genus of mostly extinct marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glossidae. Only the oxheart clam, G. humanus, is still extant, living in flat, muddy regions deep off the North Atlantic coastline of Europe.

Fossil records

All species of this genus, including the remaining extant species, G. humanus, are found in the fossil record from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene (age range: from 99.7 to 2.588 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of Eastern North America, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific.

Species

The following species and synonmised taxa are (or have been) classified underGlossus:

Glossus bronni

Glossus conradi Gabb, 1860 (=Isocarida conradi)

Glossus fraterna Say, 1824 †

Glossus harpa

Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758

Glossus cyprinoides

Glossus lamarckii

Glossus lunulatus

Glossus markoei Conrad, 1842 †

Glossus marylandica Schoonover, 1941 †

Glossus mazlea Glenn, 1904 †

Glossus moltkiana

Glossus sanguineomaculata

Glossus santamaria Ward, 1992 †

Glossus subtransversus

Glossus vulgaris Reeve, 1845

Synonyms

Glossus rubicundus Poli, 1795 accepted as Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758

Glossus hibernicus Reeve, 1845 is a regional variant of Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758

References

Glossus (genus) Wikipedia

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