Clavagellidae

Clavagellidae Temporal range: 83.5–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Brechites attrahens, a species of the family Clavagellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pholadomyoida
Family:	Clavagellidae d'Orbigny, 1843
Subfamilies
Brechitinae Stoliczka 1870 Pencillinae Gray 1858

Clavagellidae is a family of very unusual marine bivalves of the Order Pholadomyoida.

Genera and species

• †Ascaulocardium Pojeta and N. F 1987
• Brechites Guettard 1770
  • Brechites attrahens
  • Brechites brechites
  • Brechites dichotomus
  • Brechites giganteus
  • Brechites javanus
  • Brechites penis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Brechites philippinensis (Chenu, 1842)
  • Brechites pulchrum
  • Brechites pyriformis
  • Brechites radix (Gray, 1858)
  • Brechites ramosus
  • Brechites sparsus
  • Brechites strangulatus
  • Brechites vaginiferus (Lamarck, 1818)
  • Brechites veitchi
• Clavagella Blainville 1817
• Humphreyia Gray 1858
• Penicillus Bruguière 1789
• †Stirpulina Stoliczka 1870

References

• S Peter Dance, Shells Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London 1992 ISBN 0-86318-811-7
• Brechites species

External links

• Clavagellidae at the Encyclopedia of Life
  
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