Verticordia (bivalve)

Verticordia is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Verticordiidae. They are mostly small, live in deep water and have roughly equal-sized, well-inflated, fragile shells which are pearly inside.[1][2]

Verticordia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Anomalodesmata
Superfamily: Verticordioidea
Family: Verticordiidae
Genus: Verticordia
J.C.Sowerby
Species

See text.

Species

The following is a list of species according to the World Register of Marine Species:[3]

  • Verticordia australiensis E.A.Smith
  • Verticordia bordaensis Cotton & Godfrey
  • Verticordia cardiiformis (extinct) J.C.Sowerby
  • Verticordia densicostata (extinct) P. Marshall
  • Verticordia expansa Prashad
  • Verticordia granulifera (Verrill)
  • Verticordia guineensis Thiele
  • Verticordia inornata Jaeckel & Thiele
  • Verticordia neozelanica (extinct) (Suter)
  • Verticordia ouricuri Oliveira & Absalão
  • Verticordia perversa Dall
  • Verticordia quadrata E.A.Smith
  • Verticordia seguenzae Dall
  • Verticordia tasmanica May
  • Verticordia tenerrima Jaeckel & Thiele
  • Verticordia woodii E.A.Smith

References
  1. Abbott, R. Tucker; Morris, Percy A. (2001). A field guide to shells : Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0618164391.
  2. de Castro Oliveira, Cléo Dilnei; Absalão, Ricardo Silva (24 November 2009). "Review of the Septibranchia (Pelecypoda: Mollusca) from deep sea of Campos Basin, Brazil: family Verticordiidae, with description of a new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90 (04): 809–817. doi:10.1017/S0025315409991184.
  3. "Verticordia J. de C. Sowerby, 1844". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
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