Glossidae
Sign in to saveGlossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea.
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Glossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea.
==Taxonomy== The following genera and species are recognised in the family Glossidae: †Fissilunula Etheridge, 1902 †Fissilunula clarkei (C. Moore, 1870) †Fissilunula coreenaensis Day, 2025 Glossus †Glossus abichianus (Romanovsky, 1890) †Glossus eichwaldianus (Romanovsky, 1890) †Glossus gigantaeus (Ovechkin, 1954) Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – oxheart clam †Glossus lunulatus (Nyst, 1835) †Glossus major (Hölzl, 1958) †Glossus neocomiensis (Agassiz, 1842) †Glossus olearii (O. Semper, 1861) †Glossus subtransversus (A. d'Orbigny, 1852) Meiocardia H. and A. Adams, 1857 Meiocardia cumingi (A. Adams, 1864) †Meiocardia faxensis (Lundgren, 1867) †Meiocardia floridana (Dall, 1900) Meiocardia hawaiana Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 †Meiocardia incognita Zubkovitsch, 1961 Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791) †Meiocardia palmerae Nicol, 1968 Meiocardia samarangiae F. R. Bernard, Y. Cai & B. Morton, 1993 Meiocardia sanguineomaculata (Dunker, 1882) †Meiocardia septemcostata Wanner & Hahn, 1935 †Meiocardia subcumingii (H. Woodward, 1879) †Meiocardia susukii (Squires & Advocate, 1986) Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845) †Miocardiopsis Glibert, 1936 †Miocardiopsis carinata (Deshayes, 1829) †Miocardiopsis chonioides (Cossmann, 1886) †Miocardiopsis eocaenica (Bayan, 1873) †Miocardiopsis isocardioides (Deshayes, 1858) †Miocardiopsis laciniosa (Staadt, 1913) †Miocardiopsis loustaui (Cossmann, 1886) †Miocardiopsis subquadrata (Cossmann, 1886) †Miocardiopsis tapina (Cossmann, 1886) †Petalocardia É. Vincent, 1925 †Petalocardia pectinifera (J. De C. Sowerby, 1823)
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