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Pisidium

Bespalaya, Yulia V.;Vinarski, Maxim V.;Aksenova, Olga V.;Babushkin, Evgeniy S.;Gofarov, Mikhail Yu.;Kondakov, Alexander V.;Konopleva, Ekaterina S.;Kropotin, Alexander V.;Mabrouki, Youness;Ovchankova, Nadezda B.;Palatov, Dmitry M.;Sokolova, Svetlana E.;Shevchenko, Alexander R.;Travina, Oksana V.;Taybi, Abdelkhaleq F.;Soboleva, Alena A.;Zubrii, Natalia A.;Bolotov, Ivan N.

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Pisidium is a genus of very small or minute freshwater clams known as pill clams or pea clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, the pea clams and fingernail clams.

Species

pea mussels

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassBivalvia
  4. OrderSphaeriida
  5. FamilySphaeriidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded110,410

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Pisidium
taxon name
Pisidium
taxon common name
ertemuslinger
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  • Taphonomy
  • Extant subgenera and species
  • Footnotes
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Pisidium is a genus of very small or minute freshwater clams known as pill clams or pea clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, the pea clams and fingernail clams.

In some bivalve classification systems, the family Sphaeriidae is referred to as Pisidiidae, and occasionally Pisidium species are grouped in a subfamily known as Pisidiinae.

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