Manzanellidae
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Manzanellidae is a family of bivalves, in the order solemyoida, members being known as solemyids.
Solemyids contain sulphur-oxidising bacteria in their gill filaments as symbionts; the family is characterised by a reduced or even absent gut.[1]
[edit] Genera and species in the family Manzanellidae
- Huxleyia A. Adams, 1860
- Huxleyia munita (Dall, 1898) - minute nucinellid
- Nucinella Wood, 1851
- Nucinella adamsi (Dall, 1898)
- Nucinella maoriana (Hedley, 1904)
[edit] References
- ^ http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/1133 "The unwhole organism"]
- Manzanellidae (TSN 79435). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
