Clausinella

Clausinella is a genus of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae.[1]

Clausinella
Clausinella scalaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Clausinella
J. E. Gray, 1851
Species

See text

Fossil record

Fossils of Clausinella are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 48.6 to 0 million years ago). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Yemen, Australia, India and Indonesia.[2]

Fossil of Clausinella scalaris

Species

Species within this genus include:[3]

  • Clausinella fasciata da Costa, 1778
  • Clausinella punctigera (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906)
  • Clausinella scalaris (H.G. Bronn, 1831)[4]

Species Clausinella gayi L.-H. Hupé, 1854 has been designated a synonym of Tawera elliptica (Lamarck, 1818)

References


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