Sportellidae is a family of marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Cyamioidea.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Superorder: | Imparidentia |
| Superfamily: | Cyamioidea |
| Family: | Sportellidae Dall, 1899 |
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Sportellidae shells are of moderate size, equivalve and with an external ligament set on small nymphs. The hinge has one or two cardinal teeth and inconspicuous laterals.
Genera and species
edit- † Angusticardo Cossmann, 1887
- Fabella Conrad, 1863
- Fabella constricta (Conrad, 1841)
- Fabella pilsbryi (Dall, 1899)
- Fabella stearnsii (Dall, 1899)
- Sportella Deshayes, 1858
References
edit- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. pp. 113–133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1–184.
- 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.