Tivela

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Tivela Higher classification Veneridae Order Veneroida		Family Veneridae Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus

Similar Pismo clam, Bivalvia, Molluscs, Veneridae, Alvania

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Tivela is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species are included in the genus Tivela:

Tivela abaconis Dall, 1902

Tivela bicolor Gray

Tivela compressa Sowerby, 1851.

Tivela dolabella Sowerby, 1851

Tivela floridana Rehder, 1939

Tivela lamyi Dautzenberg, 1929

Tivela mactroides (Born, 1778)

Tivela natalensis Dunker, 1858

Tivela petiti Dautzenberg, 1929

Tivela polita Sowerby

Tivela stultorum (Mawe, 1823)

Tivela trigonella (Lamarck, 1818)

Tivela tripla (Linnaeus, 1767)

According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following names are also in current use :

Tivela dunkeri Römer, 1864

Tivela plathyaulax (Tomlin, 1924)

Tivela ponderosa (Philippi, 1844)

Tivela rejecta Smith, 1914

Tivela transversa Sowerby, 1897

Tivela ventricosa

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