Periplomatidae

Taxobox
name = Periplomatidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalve
ordo = Pholadomyoida
familia = Periplomatidae
familia_authority = Dall, 1895
subdivision_ranks = Genera and species
subdivision = See text.

"Periplomatidae" is a family of large marine bivalves of the Pholadomyoida order. The shells are rather large, thin and fragile, found in most temperate seas, burrowing deeply into soft mud below low water mark.

Genera and species

* "Halistrepta" Dall, 1904
** "Halistrepta sulcata" (Dall, 1904) - sulcate spoonclam
* "Offadesma" Dall, 1904
** "Offadesma angasi" (Crosse & Fischer, 1864)
* "Periploma" Schumacher, 1817
** "Periploma abyssorum"
** "Periploma affine" A. E. Verrill and Bush, 1898 - related spoonclam
** "Periploma alaskanum" Williams, 1940
** "Periploma aleuticum" (Krause, 1885) - Aleutian spoonclam
** "Periploma anguliferum" (Philippi, 1847) - angled spoonclam
** "Periploma discus" Stearns, 1890 - round spoonclam
** "Periploma fragile" (Totten, 1835) - fragile spoonclam
** "Periploma leanum" (Conrad, 1831) - lea spoonclam, oval spoonclam
** "Periploma margaritaceum" (Lamarck, 1801) - unequal spoonclam
** "Periploma orbiculare"
** "Periploma papyratium" (Say, 1822) - paper spoonclam
** "Periploma planiusculum" G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 - flat spoonclam
** "Periploma tenerum" P. Fischer, 1882 - delicate spoonclam

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* Glen Pownall, "New Zealand Shells and Shellfish", Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8