Mactridae Temporal range: Cretaceous to Present | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Venerida |
Superfamily: | Mactroidea |
Family: | Mactridae Lamarck, 1809 |
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Mactridae, common name the trough shellsorduck clams, is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Venerida.
These clams have two short siphons, each with a horny sheath. The shell is shaped like a rounded-cornered equilateral triangle and there is a slight gape at the posterior. Each valve bears two cardinal teeth with four lateral teeth on the right valve and two on the left. The foot is white and wedge-shaped. They mostly inhabit the neritic zone.[1]
Trough shells burrow in sandorfine gravel and never in muddy substrates.[1]
According to the World Register of Marine Species (2012), this family contains 37 genera:[2]
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