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Sphaeriidae

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Sphaeriidae is a family of small to minute freshwater bivalve molluscs in the order Sphaeriida. In the US, they are commonly known as pea clams or fingernail clams.

Species

orb mussels

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassBivalvia
  4. OrderSphaeriida
  5. FamilySphaeriidae
Habitatfreshwater

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taxon name
Sphaeriidae
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Sphaeriidae
taxon common name
Erwtenmossels e.a.
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Sphaeriidae is a family of small to minute freshwater bivalve molluscs in the order Sphaeriida. In the US, they are commonly known as pea clams or fingernail clams.

==Genera== Genera: Euperinae Byssanodonta d'Orbigny, 1846 Eupera Bourguignat, 1854 Sphaeriinae Afropisidium Kuiper, 1962 Euglesa Jenyns, 1832 Musculium Link, 1807 Odhneripisidium Kuiper, 1962 Pisidium C. Pfeiffer, 1821 Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777 fossils †Megasphaerioides Komatsu, J.-H. Chen & Q.-F. Wang, 2003 †Protosphaerium Hocknull, 2000 †Sphaericoncha Kolesnikov, 1980

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