Verticordia (bivalve)

Verticordia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pholadomyoida
Family: Verticordiidae
Genus: Verticordia
J.C.Sowerby

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]

The following is a list of species according to the "World Register of Marine Species":[3]

Species

References

  1. 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. p. 119–120. ISBN 0618164391.
  2. 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.
  3. "Verticordia J. de C. Sowerby, 1844". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
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