Sanguinolaria
| Sanguinolaria | |
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| Shell of Sanguinolaria tellinoides from Honduras at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Superfamily: | Tellinoidea |
| Family: | Psammobiidae |
| Genus: | Sanguinolaria Lamarck, 1799 |
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Sanguinolaria is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Psammobiidae.
Species
- Sanguinolaria achatina (Spengler, 1798)
- Sanguinolaria hendersoni Melvill & Standen, 1898
- Sanguinolaria ovalis Reeve, 1857
- Sanguinolaria sanguinolenta (Gmelin, 1791)
- Sanguinolaria tellinoides A. Adams, 1850
- Sanguinolaria tenuis Olsson, 1961
- Sanguinolaria vitrea Deshayes, 1855
References
- Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1
- Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
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