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Bivalves in South Africa include: Nuculidae. Nucula nucleus Linnaeus, 1758 [1] Mytilidae – Mussels Perna perna. Estuarine mussel Arcuatula capensis (Cape Agulhas to Mozambique) [2] Ribbed mussel Aulacomya ater (Namibia to Eastern Cape) [2] [3] Brack-water mussel Brachidontes virgiliae (Eastern Cape to Mozambique) [2]
Gervillaria is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs that lived from the Triassic to the Cretaceous in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. References [ edit ]
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Sculpture is a feature found in the shells of gastropods, bivalves, and scaphopods. The word "sculpture" is also applied to surface features of the aptychus of ammonites , and to the outer surface of some calcareous opercula of marine gastropods such as some species in the family Trochidae .
The taxonomic term Bivalvia was first used by Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758 to refer to animals having shells composed of two valves. [3] More recently, the class was known as Pelecypoda, meaning "axe-foot" (based on the shape of the foot of the animal when extended).
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Pecten is a genus of large scallops or saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This is the type genus of the family. Etymology
In 2010 a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published by Bieler, Carter & Coan revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the subclass Pteriomorphia. [8] However, the following taxonomy represents the current accepted arrangement of this subclass according to the World Register of Marine Species [ 9 ]