Clavagellidae is a
family
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of very unusual
marine bivalves of the order
Anomalodesmata
Anomalodesmata is an superorder of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. This grouping was formerly recognised as a taxonomic subclass. It is called a superorder in the current World Register of Marine Species, despite having no orders, to ...
.
Genera and species
* †''
Ascaulocardium'' Pojeta and N. F 1987
* ''
Brechites'' Guettard 1770
** ''
Brechites attrahens''
** ''
Brechites brechites''
** ''
Brechites dichotomus''
** ''
Brechites giganteus''
** ''
Brechites javanus''
** ''
Brechites penis''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
** ''
Brechites philippinensis''
( Chenu, 1842)
** ''
Brechites pulchrum''
** ''
Brechites pyriformis''
** ''
Brechites radix''
(Gray, 1858)
** ''
Brechites ramosus''
** ''
Brechites sparsus''
** ''
Brechites strangulatus''
** ''
Brechites vaginiferus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1818)
** ''
Brechites veitchi''
* ''
Clavagella'' Blainville 1817
* ''
Humphreyia'' Gray 1858
* ''
Penicillus'' Bruguière 1789
* †''
Stirpulina'' Stoliczka 1870
References
* S Peter Dance, ''Shells'' Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London 1992
Brechites species
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5129574
Bivalve families
Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny
Extant Campanian first appearances