Corbulidae
Encyclopedia
Corbulidae is a family
of bivalve molluscs in the order
Myoida
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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 in the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Myoida
Myoida
Myoida is an order of bivalve molluscs. They are burrowing molluscs, with well-developed siphons. The shell is relatively soft, and lacks a nacreous layer...
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Genera and species in the family Corbulidae
- Caryocorbula BruguiereBruguièreBruguière is a surname and may refer to:*Jean-Louis Bruguière, French judge.*Jean Guillaume Bruguière , French physician, zoologist, diplomat.*Francis Bruguière , American photographer....
, 1792- Caryocorbula porcella (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1916)
- Caryocorbula porcella (Dall
- CorbulaCorbulaCorbula is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the Corbulidae family -Species :* Corbula aequivalvis Philippi, 1836* Corbula albuginosa Hinds, 1843* Corbula amethystina * Corbula arcaeformis Lynge, 1909...
BruguiereBruguièreBruguière is a surname and may refer to:*Jean-Louis Bruguière, French judge.*Jean Guillaume Bruguière , French physician, zoologist, diplomat.*Francis Bruguière , American photographer....
, 1797- Corbula alabamiensis Lea, 1833
- Corbula barrattiana C. B. Adams, 1852
- Corbula bicarinata (Sowerby, 1833)
- Corbula biradiata (Sowerby, 1833)
- Corbula caribaea
- Corbula chittyana C. B. Adams, 1852
- Corbula contracta SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822 - Corbula cubaniana d'Orbigny, 1842
- Corbula cymella DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1881 - Corbula dietziana C. B. Adams, 1852
- Corbula kelseyi DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1916 - Corbula krebsiana C. B. Adams, 1852
- Corbula luteola CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864 - Corbula nasuta Sowerby, 1833
- Corbula nuciformis Sowerby, 1833
- Corbula porcella DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1916 - Corbula sulcata
- Corbula swiftiana C. B. Adams, 1852
- Corbula zelandica Quoy and Gaimard, 1835
- Juliacorbula Olsson and Harbison, 1953
- Juliacorbula cubaniana (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Juliacorbula luteola (CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864)
- Potamocorbula Habe, 1955
- Potamocorbula amurensis (Schrenck, 1861)
- Varicorbula GrantUlysses S. Grant IVUlysses S. Grant IV , was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. He was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast...
and Gale, 1931- Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)
- Varicorbula operculata (PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1848)