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Trachycardium

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Cardiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Bivalvia

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Veneroida

Trachycardium WoRMS Photogallery

Similar
  
Laevicardium, Acrosterigma, Dinocardium, Trachycardium isocardia, Trachycardium egmontianum

Tentativa de preda o de voluta ebraea sobre trachycardium muricatum


Trachycardium is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.

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Fossil records

Trachycardium WoRMS Photogallery

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 109.0 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.

Species

Species within this genus include:

Trachycardium magnum Linnaeus 1758 Magnum Pricklycockle

  • Trachycardium assimile (Reeve, 1844)
  • Trachycardium belcheri (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  • Trachycardium consors (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
  • Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856) — Florida prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium enode
  • Trachycardium isocardia — West Indian prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium lacunosum (Reeve, 1845)
  • Trachycardium magnum (Linnaeus, 1758) — magnum cockle
  • Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus, 1758) — yellow cockle
  • Trachycardium panamense (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
  • Trachycardium pristipleura (Dall, 1901)
  • Trachycardium procerum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Slender cockle
  • Trachycardium senticosum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Panama thorny cockle

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    References

    Trachycardium Wikipedia
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