Verticordia (bivalve)
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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Anomalodesmata |
| Superfamily: | Verticordioidea |
| Family: | Verticordiidae |
| Genus: | Verticordia J.C.Sowerby |
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Species
The following is a list of species according to the World Register of Marine Species:[3]
- Verticordia australiensis E.A.Smith
- Verticordia bordaensis Cotton & Godfrey
- Verticordia cardiiformis (extinct) J.C.Sowerby
- Verticordia densicostata (extinct) P. Marshall
- Verticordia expansa Prashad
- Verticordia granulifera (Verrill)
- Verticordia guineensis Thiele
- Verticordia inornata Jaeckel & Thiele
- Verticordia neozelanica (extinct) (Suter)
- Verticordia ouricuri Oliveira & Absalão
- Verticordia perversa Dall
- Verticordia quadrata E.A.Smith
- Verticordia seguenzae Dall
- Verticordia tasmanica May
- Verticordia tenerrima Jaeckel & Thiele
- Verticordia woodii 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.
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