Cerastoderma
Cerastoderma Temporal range:
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Common cockle Cerastoderma edule | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Cardiida |
Family: | Cardiidae |
Genus: | Cerastoderma Poli, 1795 |
Type species | |
Cardium edule | |
Species | |
See text |
Cerastoderma is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Cardiidae. It includes the common cockle Cerastoderma edule.
Fossil records[]
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 58.7 to 0.012 million years ago).[2]
Species[]
Extant species:[1]
- Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) - common cockle
- Cerastoderma glaucum (Poiret, 1789) - lagoon cockle
- (= Cerastoderma lamarcki [Reeve, 1845])
- Glenn, 1904 †
- Glenn, 1904 †
- Dall, 1900 †
- Dall, 1900 †
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References[]
- ^ a b "Cerastoderma Poli, 1785". World Register of Marine Species. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee. Retrieved 29 Dec 2012.
- ^ a b Fossilworks
- ^ Fossil Cerastoderma
Categories:
- Cardiidae
- Bivalve genera
- Taxa named by Giuseppe Saverio Poli
- Bivalve stubs