Pliocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Vesicomyidae.[1]
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| Shell of Pliocardia atalantae (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Superfamily: | Glossoidea |
| Family: | Vesicomyidae |
| Genus: | Pliocardia Woodring, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| † Anomalocardia bowdeniana Dall, 1903 | |
Species
edit- Pliocardia atalantae (Cosel & Olu, 2009)
- † Pliocardia bowdeniana (Dall, 1903)
- Pliocardia caribbea (Boss, 1967)
- Pliocardia cordata (Boss, 1968)
- Pliocardia crenulomarginata (Okutani, Kojima & Iwasaki, 2002)
- Pliocardia donacia (Dall, 1908)
- Pliocardia hayashii (Habe, 1976)
- Pliocardia indica (E. A. Smith, 1904)
- † Pliocardia italica Kiel & Taviani, 2017
- † Pliocardia kawadai (Aoki, 1954)
- Pliocardia krylovata A. M. Martin & Goffredi, 2012
- Pliocardia kuroshimana (Okutani, Fujikura & Kojima, 2000)
- Pliocardia ovalis (Dall, 1896)
- Pliocardia ponderosa (Boss, 1968)
- Pliocardia solidissima (Prashad, 1932)
- Pliocardia stearnsii (Dall, 1895)
- † Pliocardia tanakai Miyajima, Nobuhara & Koike, 2017
- Pliocardia ticaonica (Dall, 1908)
References
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- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pliocardia Woodring, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464299 on 2022-02-01
- Woodring W.P. (1925). Miocene Mollusca from Bowden Jamaica, pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 366 : 1–564, pl. 1-40.
- Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp
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