Bivalve genera

Sinomytilus is a genus of saltwater, brackish water and freshwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Septiferinae of the family Mytilidae, the mussels.

Liocyma is a genus of molluscs in the family Veneridae.

Centrocardita is an extant genus of marine clams in the family Carditidae. It is also represented in the fossil record. It is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Glans.

Tawera is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Veneridae.

Brechites is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Penicillidae.

Echyridella is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. There are three recognised species in the genus, which all live in the waters of New Zealand. They are collectively known in Māori as kākahi.

Mesodesma is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mesodesmatidae. It is the type genus of the family.

genus of molluscs

Asaphis is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Psammobiidae.

genus of molluscs

Mizuhopecten is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pectinidae.

genus of molluscs

Sunetta is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Veneridae.

Diplodon is a genus of freshwater pearly mussel, an aquatic bivalve in the Hyriidae family.

Scutarcopagia is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Tellininae of the family Tellinidae.

Laternula is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Laternulidae.

Cadella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Tellinidae.

genus of bivalves

Austromacoma is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Tellinidae.

Euglesa is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Sphaeriidae.

Choromytilus is a genus of mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.

Nototeredo is a genus of ship-worms, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Teredinidae.

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Magallana is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing some of the most important oysters used for food. Species in this genus have been moved from Crassostrea after it was found to be paraphyletic.

Potomida is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Gonideinae of the family Unionidae.

Mytilaster is a genus of marine mussels from the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Basin. The type species is Mytilaster lineatus.

Kuphus is a genus of shipworms, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae. While there are four extinct species in the genus, the only extant species is Kuphus polythalamius (also incorrectly spelled as Kuphus polythalamia). It is the longest bivalve mollusc in the world, where the only known permanent natural habitat is Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat in the Philippines.

Escalima is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae, the file shells or file clams.

Asperarca is a genus of bivalves in the family Arcidae which currently consists of eight species. They attach themselves to rocks or hard substrates with byssal threads in shallower, coastal waters. It was first described by Dr. Federico Sacco in December 1898 with the type taxon A. nodulosa that has been recorded throughout the coastal Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, and northeastern Atlantic Ocean. The earliest known species are A. acuta and A. microida which were found in 2014 in Ukraine from the Eocene Epoch.

Bushia is a genus of saltwater clams in the family Thraciidae.

Pharaonella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Tellinidae.

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Adacna is a genus of fresh- and brackish-water bivalve molluscs of the cockle family (Cardiidae). It includes species characterized by thin shells, with flattened ribs and usually rather deep pallial sinus. The four extant species are found in fresh- and brackish-water lakes of the Danube Delta, estuaries (limans) of the north-western Black Sea, the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea. Two Caspian species were also present in the Aral Sea, where they went extinct by the end of the 1970s as the lake was shrinking and became more saline. Two fossil species have been described fro

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Pratulum is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae.

Cyrtopleura is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pholadidae.

Ervilia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae.

Leukoma is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. This genus of bivalves has been exploited by humans since prehistory; for example, the Chumash peoples of California harvested this genus from Morro Bay in approximately 1000 AD.

Pseudochama is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Chamidae.