Cyclochlamydidae is a family of
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 ...
s belonging to the order
Pectinida
Pectinida is a taxonomic order of large and medium-sized saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs, commonly known as scallops and their allies. It is believed that they began evolutionarily in the late Middle Ordovician epoch; many species, of c ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Chlamydella''
Iredale, 1929
* ''
Cyclochlamys''
Finlay, 1926
* ''
Micropecten''
Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2012
References
* Dijkstra H.H. & Maestrati P. (2012) Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae n. fam., Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Vanuatu Archipelago. Zoosystema 34(2): 389-408
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Pectinida
Bivalve families