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Genus of bivalve molluscs

Pliocardia
Shell of Pliocardia atalantae (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Glossoidea
Family: Vesicomyidae
Genus: Pliocardia
Woodring, 1925
Type species
Anomalocardia bowdeniana Dall, 1903

Pliocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Vesicomyidae.

Species

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pliocardia Woodring, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464299 on 2022-02-01
  • Woodring W.P. (1925). Miocene Mollusca from Bowden Jamaica, pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 366 : 1–564, pl. 1-40.
  • Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp
Taxon identifiers
Pliocardia


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