''Ascetoaxinus'' is a

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of saltwater clams, marine

bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

s in the

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Thyasiridae Thyasiridae is a family of bivalve molluscs, including the cleft clams, in the order Lucinida. Genera and species * '' Adontorhina'' S. S. Berry, 1947 ** '' Adontorhina cyclia'' S. S. Berry, 1947 ** '' Adontorhina keegani'' Barry & McCormack ...

. The shells of species in this genus have a lunule with a scalloped margin. The genus was first described in 2014 by Graham Oliver of the

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and Melissa Frey, curator of invertebrates at the

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. The genus consists of the following species: *'' Ascetoaxinus quatsinoensis'' Oliver and Frey, 2014 *'' Ascetoaxinus ovoidea'' (Dall, 1890), formerly known as '' Cryptodon ovoideus'' Dall, 1890

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