Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

Giacomino, Sebastián & Signorelli, Javier H., 2021, Systematic redescription of Solen (Ensisolen) tehuelchus and Ensis macha (Bivalvia: Solenoidea) from Argentina, southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 4964 (3), pp. 541-558 : 547

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4964.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A0D449C-B9E7-46E8-B297-3572410D6407

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4742427

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87C9-996C-FFE5-FF4C-FC5ECE6D1DEE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856
status

 

Family Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 View in CoL (= Cultellidae Davies, 1935)

Diagnosis: Shell cylindrical, quadrate to ovate, laterally compressed, inequilateral, longer posteriorly, umbos terminal to sub-terminal, external surface smooth, some species with commarginal striae and ribs; hinge plate thin, right valve with a single vertical and a single horizontal cardinal tooth; left valve with two vertical and two horizontal cardinal teeth; lateral teeth absent; posterior adductor muscle smaller that anterior one, pallial sinus shallow to moderately deep; pedal gape and fourth mantle aperture usually present; foot large, compressed, obliquely truncate.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Adapedonta

SuperFamily

Solenoidea

Family

Pharidae

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