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Petricolidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Petricolidae

Rank
  
Family

Superfamily
  
Veneroidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Veneroida

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Lower classifications
  
Petricola, Petricolaria, Mysia

The Petricolidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs related to the large family Veneridae or Venus clams. Some authors include these genera within the Veneridae as the subfamily Petricolinae.

Genera and species

Genera and species in the family Petricolidae include:

  • Choristodon Jonas, 1844
  • Choristodon robustum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
  • Cooperella Carpenter, 1864
  • Cooperella atlantica Rehder, 1943
  • Cooperella subdiaphana (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Mysia Lamarck, 1818
  • Mysia undata (Pennant, 1777)
  • Petricola Lamarck, 1801
  • Petricolaria Stoliczka, 1870
  • Rupellaria Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802
  • Rupellaria cancellata (Verrill, 1885)
  • Rupellaria denticulata (Sowerby, 1834)
  • Rupellaria tellimyalis (Carpenter, 1864)

    • References

    Petricolidae Wikipedia
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