Condylocardiidae

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Condylocardiidae
Saltocuna particula (from Hedley, 1902).png
Saltocuna particula , in the subfamily Cuninae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Genus:Condylocardiidae
Lamarck, 1809
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Condylocardiidae is a family of small marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Clam common name

Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives partially buried in the sand of the ocean floor. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate and do not live near the bottom. In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are oval or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting an old-fashioned straight razor.

In biological classification, the order is

  1. a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family. An immediately higher rank, superorder, may be added directly above order, while suborder would be a lower rank.
  2. a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. In that case the plural is orders.

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Carditidae family of molluscs

Carditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida, which was long included in the Veneroida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea. Delimitation of this family versus the closely related Condylocardiidae is somewhat problematic.

Philobryidae is a taxonomic family of very small equivalved triangular saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs, related to the ark clams and the bittersweets. Their shells have projecting umbones and are non-nacreous. The ligament of the hinge is either completely internal or only slightly external. They have only one adductor muscle scar on the inside of each of their shells as opposed to the more-common two. Species from this family are found in most seas, in shallow to moderately deep water. This family contains about sixty species in seven genera.

<i>Solariella</i> genus of molluscs

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Semelidae family of molluscs

The Semelidae are a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Cardiida.

Thyasiridae family of molluscs

Thyasiridae is a family of bivalve molluscs, including the cleft clams, in the order Lucinida.

Verticordiidae is a taxonomic family of very small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Anomalodesmata.

<i>Homalopoma</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Splendrillia</i> genus of molluscs

Splendrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.

<i>Syntomodrillia</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Asperdaphne</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Daphnella</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Pleurotomella</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Austrodrillia</i> genus of molluscs

Austrodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.

<i>Cochlespira</i> genus of molluscs

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<i>Awateria</i> genus of molluscs

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Antiguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

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<i>Anacithara</i> genus of snails

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References

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