Dilemma (bivalve)
Dilemma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Subclass: | Anomalodesmata |
Order: | Pholadomyoida |
Family: | Poromyidae |
Genus: | Dilemma Leal, 2008 |
Species | |
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Dilemma is a genus of marine bivalves of the family Poromyidae. The genus is remarkable for encompassing predators of isopods and ostracods, unusual for sessile molluscs.[1]
Species
- Dilemma frumarkernorum Leal, 2008
- Dilemma inexpectatum (Crozier, 1966)
- Dilemma japonicum Sasaki & Leal, 2008
- Dilemma spectralis Leal, 2008
References
- ↑ Leal J. H. (2008). "A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa 1764: 1–18. PDF fulltext.
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- Sasaki T. & Leal J. H. (2008). "Dilemma japonicum new species (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae): A new record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific". The Nautilus 122: 166-170. PDF fulltext.
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