Biology:Pelecyora
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Short description: Genus of bivalves
Pelecyora | |
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Fossil valve of Pelecyora brocchii from Pliocene of Italy | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Venerida |
Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
Family: | Veneridae |
Genus: | Pelecyora Dall, 1902 |
Species | |
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Pelecyora is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.
Species
Species within the genus Pelecyora include:
- Pelecyora brocchii (Deshayes, 1836)
- Pelecyora bullata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
- Pelecyora ceylonica (Dunker, 1865)
- Pelecyora corculum (Römer, 1870)
- Pelecyora eudeli (Fischer-Piette & Delmas, 1967)
- Pelecyora excisa (Röding, 1798)
- Pelecyora exilium (G. B. Sowerby III, 1909)
- Pelecyora hatchetigbeensis (Aldrich, 1886) †
- Pelecyora insularum (Fischer-Piette & Delmas, 1967)
- Pelecyora isocardia (Dunker, 1845)
- Pelecyora jousseaumiana (Fischer-Piette & Delmas, 1967)
- Pelecyora jukesbrowniana (Preston, 1915)
- Pelecyora katiawarensis (Fischer-Piette & Métivier, 1971)
- Pelecyora nana (Reeve, 1850)
- Pelecyora sphaericula (Römer, 1862)
- Pelecyora trigona (Reeve, 1850)
- Pelecyora tripla (Römer, 1860)
Distribution
Fossils of Pelecyora are found in the marine strata throughout the world, including the Quaternary of Thailand, the Pliocene of Italy and Spain , the Miocene of Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany , Italy, Poland , Slovakia and the Eocene of Belgium, Pakistan and the United States .
References
Wikidata ☰ Q16987680 entry
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