''Phestia'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
clam belonging to order
Nuculanida
Nuculanida is an order of very small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subclass Protobranchia.
Description
These bivalves are distinguished by the presence of relatively primitive, "protobranchiate" gills. There are a row of short ...
and family
Nuculanidae.
Specimens have been found on all seven continents.
Species
*''P. basedowi''
Etheridge Jr., 1907
*''P. corrugata''
Hoare ''et al.'', 1989
*''P. darwini''
de Koninck, 1877
*''P. guizhouensis''
Xu, 1980
*''P. hunanensis''
Ku and Chen, 1963
*''P. inflata''
Morningstar, 1922
*''P. inflatiformis''
Chernyshev, 1989
*''P. jamesi''
Biakov, 2002
*''P. lusabaensis''
Dickins, 1999
*''P. nova''
Waterhouse, 1983
*''P. obtusa''
Hoare et al. 1989
*''P. pandoraeformis''
Stevens, 1858
*''P. perumbonata''
White, 1880
*''P. sabbatinae''
Pagani, 2004
*''P. sinuata''
Dembskaja, 1972
*''P. speluncaria''
Geinitz, 1848
*''P. subucuta''
Waagen, 1881
*''P. thompsoni''
Reed, 1932
*''P. undosa''
Muromtseva, 1984
*''P. wortheni''
Hoare et al. 1989[
*''P. zhejiangensis'' Liu, 1976]
References
Paleozoic life
Prehistoric bivalve genera
Nuculanidae
Molluscs described in 1951
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