Entoliidae
Encyclopedia
Entoliidae is a family
of bivalves, related to oyster
s and scallop
s. It contains at least seven species in five genera.
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 bivalves, related to 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 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. It contains at least seven species in five genera.
Taxonomy
- Entolium Meek 1865
- Entolium fossatum Marwick 1953
- Entolium utokokense Imlay 1961
- Pectinella
- Pectinella sigsbeei (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1886) - Pectinella aequoris Dijkstra, 1991
- Pectinella sigsbeei (Dall
- Pernopecten Winchell 1865
- Somapecten
- Syncyclonema Meek 1864
- Syncyclonema travisanus Stephenson 1941