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Pliocardia

Pliocardia
Shell of Pliocardia atalantae (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Glossoidea
Family:	Vesicomyidae
Genus:	Pliocardia Woodring, 1925
Type species
† Anomalocardia bowdeniana Dall, 1903

Pliocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Vesicomyidae.^[1]

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[edit]

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• 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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