Verticordia (bivalve)
| Verticordia | |
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| Verticordia ouricuri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subterclass: | Heterodonta |
| Superorder: | Anomalodesmata |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | Verticordiidae |
| Genus: | Verticordia J.C.Sowerby |
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Verticordia is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Verticordiidae. They are mostly small, live in deep water and have roughly equal-sized, well-inflated, fragile shells which are pearly inside.[1][2]
Species[]
The following is a list of species according to the World Register of Marine Species:[3]
- E.A.Smith
- Cotton & Godfrey
- (extinct) J.C.Sowerby
- (extinct) P. Marshall
- Prashad
- (Verrill)
- Thiele
- Jaeckel & Thiele
- (extinct) (Suter)
- Oliveira & Absalão
- Dall
- E.A.Smith
- Dall
- May
- Jaeckel & Thiele
- E.A.Smith
References[]
- ^ Abbott, R. Tucker; Morris, Percy A. (2001). A field guide to shells : Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0618164391.
- ^ de Castro Oliveira, Cléo Dilnei; Absalão, Ricardo Silva (24 November 2009). "Review of the Septibranchia (Pelecypoda: Mollusca) from deep sea of Campos Basin, Brazil: family Verticordiidae, with description of a new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90 (04): 809–817. doi:10.1017/S0025315409991184.
- ^ "Verticordia J. de C. Sowerby, 1844". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
Categories:
- Verticordiidae
- Bivalve genera