Anomiidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of bivalve molluscs related to scallop

Scallop

A scallop is a marine bivalve mollusk of the family Pectinidae. Scallops are a cosmopolitan family, found in all of the world's oceans. Many scallops are highly prized as a food source...

s and oyster

Oyster

The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified....

s, and known as anomiids. It contains seven genera.

The family is known by several common names, including jingle shells, saddle oysters and mermaid's toenails.

Description

Anomiids have extremely thin, translucent, paper-like shells. There is often a hole in the lower shell, caused by growth of the shell around the byssus

Byssus

Byssus means both a silky filament by which certain molluscs attach themselves to hard surfaces, and a rare fabric, also called sea silk and its fibre source.-Word:...

. The shell follows the shape of the object it lies on - usually a rock or a large shell of another creature.

Uses

The flesh of members of this family is distastefully bitter and is not eaten. However, industrial uses of the shell include manufacture into, or as part of, glue

Glue

This is a list of various types of glue. Historically, the term "glue" only referred to protein colloids prepared from animal flesh. The meaning has been extended to refer to any fluid adhesive....

, chalk

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....

, paint

Paint

Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film. One may also consider the digital mimicry thereof...

, shellac

Shellac

Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes , which are dissolved in ethyl alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish...

 and solder

Solder

Solder is a fusible metal alloy used to join together metal workpieces and having a melting point below that of the workpiece.Soft solder is what is most often thought of when solder or soldering are mentioned and it typically has a melting range of . It is commonly used in electronics and...

. Capiz shells, the shells of Placuna placenta

Placuna placenta

Placuna placenta, also known as capiz or windowpane oyster, is a bivalve marine mollusk in the family of Placunidae. Among the four species in the family, only the Placenta placenta has an outer shell translucent enough for commercial use.-Habitat:The distribution of the mollusk stretches from...

, the windowpane oyster, are made into decorative objects such as lampshade

Lampshade

A lampshade is a fixture that covers the lightbulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits. Conical, cylindrical and other forms on floor-, desk- or table top-mounted as well as suspended lamp models are the most common and are made in a wide range of materials. The term can also apply to the...

s, in Asia

Asia

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Genera and species

Genera and species in the family Anomiidae include:
Subfamily Anomiinae

• Anomia
  Anomia (genus)
  Anomia is a genus of bivalves in the family Anomiidae, commonly known as jingle shells.-Species :* Anomia achaeus Gray* Anomia chinensis* Anomia ephippium Linnaeus, 1758* Anomia laqueata Reeve* Anomia nobilis...
  
  
  • Anomia chinensis Philippi
    Rodolfo Amando Philippi
    Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
    
    , 1849 - Chinese jingle shell
  • Anomia ephippium Linnaeus, 1758 - European jingle shell
  • Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny, 1846 - Peruvian jingle
  • Anomia simplex
    Anomia simplex
    Anomia simplex, or the common jingle shell, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Nova Scotia to the West Indies....
    
    d'Orbigny, 1842 - Common jingle
  • Anomia trigonopsis
    Anomia trigonopsis
    Anomia trigonopsis, also known as the New Zealand jingle, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae, the anomiids.-References:...
    
    Hutton
    Frederick Wollaston Hutton
    Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, was an English scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.- Biography :...
    
    , 1877 - New Zealand jingle
• Enigmonia
  • Enigmonia aenigmatica (Holten, 1803) - Mangrove jingle shell
• Heteranomia
  • Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758) - Prickly jingle

Subfamily Placunanomiinae

• Monia
  • Monia macroschisma (Deshayes
    Gérard Paul Deshayes
    Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
    
    , 1839)
  • Monia umbonata - False jingle shell
  • Monia zelandica
    Monia zelandica
    Monia zelandica, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae, the jingle shells.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
    
    - (Gray, 1843)
• Patro
  • Patro australis
  • Patro undatus
• Placuna
  • Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758) - Windowpane oyster or Capiz shell
• Pododesmus
  • Pododesmus cepio
  • Pododesmus patelliformis
    Pododesmus patelliformis
    Pododesmus patelliformis or ribbed saddle-oyster is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae. It is found in the north east Atlantic Ocean.-Description:...
    
    Linnaeus, 1761
  • Pododesmus rudis
    Pododesmus rudis
    Pododesmus rudis, or the false jingle shell, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Anomiidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Florida to the West Indies....
    
    (Broderip, 1834) - False Atlantic jingle