Semelidae
Semelidae | |
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Three valves of the peppery furrow shell, Scrobicularia plana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Cardiida |
Superfamily: | Tellinoidea |
Family: | Semelidae Stoliczka, 1870 |
Genera | |
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The Semelidae are a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Cardiida.
Description[]
Members of this family have rounded or oval, elongated shells, much flattened. The two valves are connected by an internal ligament in contrast to the closely related family Tellinidae where the ligament is external. The two separate siphons are very long, sometimes several times the length of the shell. These siphons have a characteristic cruciform muscle at their base.[1]
Selected genera[]
Genera of Semelidae (with some notable species also listed) include:[2]
- Abra Lamarck, 1818
- Dall, 1911
- Cumingia G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
- Ervilia Turton, 1822
- Gould, 1861
- (Montagu, 1803)
- (Holmes, 1860)
- (Montagu, 1808)
- Odhner, 1922
- (Smith, 1906)
- H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856
- A. Adams, 1864
- Powell
- (Hutton, 1885)
- Habe, 1960
- Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
- Souverbie, 1863
- Dall, 1924
- Scrobicularia Schumacher, 1815
- Scrobicularia plana – Peppery furrow shell
- Semele Schumacher, 1817
- Dall, 1900
- (Conrad, 1841)
- † Cossmann, 1913
- Récluz, 1869
- Theora H. Adams and A. Adams, 1856
- Theora lubrica Gould, 1861
- Theora mesopotamica Annandale 1918
- Thyellisca H. E. Vokes, 1956
References[]
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- http://gni.globalnames.org/data_sources/30?page=1&search_term=ns%3AERV*
Categories:
- Semelidae
- Bivalve families
- Taxa named by Ferdinand Stoliczka