Procardium | |
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Shell of Procardium indicum (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Cardiida |
Superfamily: | Cardioidea |
Family: | Cardiidae |
Genus: | Procardium ter Poorten & La Perna, 2017 |
Type species | |
Cardium indicumLamarck, 1819 |
Procardium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Cardiinae of the family Cardiidae. [1]
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