Sanguinolaria

Sanguinolaria
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
Synonyms
  • Florisarka Iredale, 1936
  • Lobaria Schumacher, 1817 (synonym)
  • Psammotellina Fischer, 1887
  • Sanguinolaria (Sanguinolaria) Lamarck, 1799

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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