Tivela
| Tivela | |
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| The outside of one valve of Tivela ponderosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Metazoa |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Tivela Link, 1815 |
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Tivela is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species are included in the genus Tivela:[1]
- Tivela abaconis Dall, 1902
- Tivela bicolor Gray
- Tivela compressa Sowerby, 1851.
- Tivela dolabella Sowerby, 1851
- Tivela floridana Rehder, 1939
- Tivela lamyi Dautzenberg, 1929
- Tivela mactroides (Born, 1778)
- Tivela natalensis Dunker, 1858
- Tivela petiti Dautzenberg, 1929
- Tivela polita Sowerby
- Tivela stultorum (Mawe, 1823)
- Tivela trigonella (Lamarck, 1818)
- Tivela tripla (Linnaeus, 1767)
According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following names are also in current use :[2]
- Tivela dunkeri Römer, 1864
- Tivela plathyaulax (Tomlin, 1924)
- Tivela ponderosa (Philippi, 1844)
- Tivela rejecta Smith, 1914
- Tivela transversa Sowerby, 1897
Tivela ventricosa