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page 4Bivalve genera
Arcinella
Arcinella is a genus of bivalve mollusc in the family Chamidae.
Truncilla
Truncilla is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Paphies
Paphies is a genus of large, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mesodesmatidae. The genus is endemic to New Zealand. The species in this genus include the pipi (P. australis), tuatua (P. subtriangulata) and toheroa (P. ventricosa).

Coelatura
Coelatura is a genus of bivalve in the Unionidae family.
Gigantidas
Gigantidas is a genus of large, deepwater, hydrothermal vent mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
Portlandia
genus of molluscs
Thyasira
Thyasira is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Thyasiridae.
Pilsbryoconcha
Pilsbryoconcha is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Unionidae.

Fulvia
genus of molluscs
Adipicola
Adipicola is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae, the mussels.
Striarca
Striarca is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Noetiidae.
Gloripallium
Gloripallium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pectinidae.
Limopsis
Limopsis is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Limopsidae.
Diplodonta
Diplodonta is a genus of marine bivalves belonging to the family Ungulinidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Spathochlamys
Spathochlamys is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the taxonomic subfamily Pedinae of the family Pectinidae.
Chamelea
Chamelea is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.
Cucullaea
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Hyriopsis
Hyriopsis is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Unionidae.

Cyrtonaias
Cyrtonaias is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae.

Fimbria
genus of molluscs
Tresus
Tresus is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mactridae. Many of them are known under the common name the horse clam or as species of gaper clam. They are similar to geoducks.

Propeamussium
Propeamussium is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida.
Leptopecten
Leptopecten is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pectinidae.
Crassinella
Crassinella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Crassatellidae.

Varicorbula
Varicorbula is a genus of saltwater clams in the family Corbulidae.
Amygdalum
Amygdalum is a genus of saltwater mussels, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels.
Dosina
Dosina is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae.
Acar
genus of molluscs
Haliris
Haliris is a genus of the class Bivalvia of the family Verticordiidae.
Arcuatula
Arcuatula is a genus of mussels from the family Mytilidae.
Neilo
Nelio is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Malletiidae.
Americardia
Americardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.

Ctena
Ctena is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.
Venustaconcha
Venustaconcha is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae.
Macrocallista
Macrocallista is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
Cumingia
Cumingia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae. It is also represented in the fossil record.

Tucetona
Tucetona is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glycymerididae, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, Tucetona species have a ribbed shell.
Verticordia
genus of molluscs
Periglypta
Periglypta is a genus of bivalves in the subfamily Venerinae of the family Veneridae.
Bractechlamys
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Bractechlamys is a genus of molluscs in the family Pectinidae.
Myadora
Myadora is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Myochamidae. They are shallow-burrowing bivalves, able to burrow rapidly.
Felaniella
Felaniella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Ungulinidae.
Haumea
genus of molluscs
Annachlamys
Annachlamys is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae.
Pillucina
Pillucina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.
Thyellisca
Thyellisca is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae.
Pododesmus
Pododesmus is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Anomiidae.
Halicardia
Halicardia Dall, 1895 is a genus of bivalves in the family Verticordiidae.

Parvicardium
Parvicardium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Lymnocardiinae of the family Cardiidae.

Utterbackia
Utterbackia is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae.
Acrosterigma
Acrosterigma is a genus of large saltwater clams or cockles, marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
Didacna
Didacna is a genus of brackish-water bivalve molluscs of the cockle family (Cardiidae) characterized by rounded-triangular, oval or trapezoidal shells with flattened ribs. It includes about 90 accepted species, 9 of which are extant and endemic to the Caspian Sea. The genus presumably originated in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea basins during the Pleistocene around 900,000 years ago. However, several fossil species from older deposits outside of those basins have also sometimes been classified within this genus. These cockles are sedentary filter feeders that bury into the sediment and feed
Megalonaias
Megalonaias is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Unionidae.
Papyridea
Papyridea is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.
Parilimya
Parilimya is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Parilimyidae. Globally distributed, fossils of the genus date back to at least the Miocene.
Uniomerus
Uniomerus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Aulacomya
Aulacomya is a genus of edible saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels.
Sinonovacula
Sinonovacula is a genus of bivalves.

Theora
genus of Semelidae
Placopecten
Placopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.