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Verticordia (bivalve)

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Verticordia
Verticordia ouricuri (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Superorder: Anomalodesmata
Superfamily: Verticordioidea
Family: Verticordiidae
Genus: Verticordia
J.C.Sowerby
Species

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Verticordia is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Verticordiidae. [1]>

They are mostly small, live in deep water and have roughly equal-sized, well-inflated, fragile shells which are pearly inside.[2][3]

Species

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The following is a list of species according to the World Register of Marine Species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Verticordia J. de C. Sowerby, 1844". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ Abbott, R. Tucker; Morris, Percy A. (2001). A field guide to shells : Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0618164391.
  3. ^ de Castro Oliveira, Cléo Dilnei; Absalão, Ricardo Silva (24 November 2009). "Review of the Septibranchia (Pelecypoda: Mollusca) from deep sea of Campos Basin, Brazil: family Verticordiidae, with description of a new species". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90 (4): 809–817. doi:10.1017/S0025315409991184. S2CID 84338102.
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