Hiatellidae

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Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Myoida Family: Hiatellidae Gray, 1824
Genera and species
See text.

Hiatellidae is a family of bivalve molluscs in the order Myoida.

Shells are generally elongate, concentrically wrinkled, and rather thin, gaping at each end.

[edit] Genera

• Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801
• Hiatella Bosc, 1801
  • Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Panomya Gray, 1857
• Panopea Menard, 1807
  • Panopea zelandica Quoy and Gaimard, 1835
• Saxicavella P. Fischer, 1878

[edit] References

• Hiatellidae (TSN 81760). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1