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Tawera
Sign in to saveTawera is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Veneridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderVenerida
- FamilyVeneridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 92
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Veneridae
- Collections
- AUM, USNM, UF, NMV
- Recorded in
- New Zealand, Philippines, United States, Australia
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Tawera is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Veneridae.
==Species== As of 2019, the accepted Tawera species (As listed on WoRMS) are as follows. Tawera australiana M. Huber, 2010 Tawera coelata (Menke, 1843) Tawera elliptica (Lamarck, 1818) Tawera gallinula (Lamarck, 1818) Tawera lagopus (Lamarck, 1818) Tawera laticostata (Odhner, 1917) Tawera marionae Finlay, 1928 Tawera mawsoni (Hedley, 1916) Tawera phenax (Finlay, 1930) Tawera philomela (E. A. Smith, 1885) Tawera rosa Powell, 1955 Tawera similicentrifuga (Viader, 1951) Tawera sphaericula (Deshayes, 1853) Tawera spissa (Deshayes, 1835) Tawera torresiana (E. A. Smith, 1884)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tawera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.