Xylophaga

Xylophaga
Xylophaga dorsalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Superorder:
Order:	Myida
Family:	Xylophagaidae
Genus:	Xylophaga Turton, 1822
Species
See text.

Xylophaga is a genus of bivalves in the family Pholadidae.

Species[]

• Dall, 1886
• Richards, 1942
• Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton, 1819)
• Xylophaga nandani Velásquez, Jayachandran & Jima, 2022
• E. A. Smith, 1903
• Bartsch, 1921

An undetermined species has been found in the Bissekty Formation, situated in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan, and dates from the late Cretaceous Period. A prehistoric species has also been reported in Alabama.

See also[]

• List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References[]

• Purchon, R. D. 1941. On the biology and relationships of the lamellibranch Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton). Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Journal 25(1): 1–39.

External links[]

• Media related to Xylophaga at Wikimedia Commons

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