Xylophagaidae

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Xylophagaidae
Temporal range: Albian–recent, 113.2–0  Ma [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Superorder: Imparidentia
Order: Myida
Family: Xylophagaidae
Purchon, 1941
Genera

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Xylophagaidae is a family of marine bivalves. [2] They are woodboring molluscs similar to shipworms and range from the sublittoral zone to the deep sea. [3]

Xylophagaidae was first recognized as a subfamily Xylophagainae with the family Pholadidae. [2] [3]

List of genera

The Xylophagaidae family contains seven extant genera: [2]

There is also one genus only known from the fossil record: [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "†Xylophagella Meek 1864". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2025). "Xylophagaidae Purchon, 1941". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  3. 1 2 Turner, Ruth Dixon (2002). "On the subfamily Xylophagainae (family Pholadidae, Bivalva, Mollusca)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 157: 223–308. OCLC   52261201.
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