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Poromyidae 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 marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

bivalves of 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...

Pholadomyoida

Pholadomyoida is an order of bivalve molluscs. It is the sole member of the subclass Anomalosdesmata. Their shells are of equal size, as are the muscles that hold them closed, and the margins at the hinges are thickened...

. The genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

Dilemma, described only in 2008, is remarkable for being a predator of copepod

Copepod

Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...

s, unusual for sessile

Sessility (zoology)

In zoology, sessility is a characteristic of animals which are not able to move about. They are usually permanently attached to a solid substrate of some kind, such as a part of a plant or dead tree trunk, a rock, or the hull of a ship in the case of barnacles. Corals lay down their own...

molluscs.

Genera and species

Cetoconcha Dall
W. H. Dall
William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

, 1889
- Cetoconcha atypha Verrill and Bush, 1898
- Cetoconcha bulla (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1881)
- Cetoconcha malespinae Ridewood, 1903
- Cetoconcha margarita (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1886)
- Cetoconcha smithii Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1908
Dermatomya Dall
W. H. Dall
William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

, 1889
- Dermatomya buttoni Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1916
- Dermatomya mactroides (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1889)
Dilemma Leal, 2008
Poromya Forbes, 1844
- Poromya albida Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1886
- Poromya beringiana (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1916)
- Poromya elongata Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1886
- Poromya granulata (Nyst and Westendorp, 1839)
- Poromya houbricki Bernard, 1989
- Poromya laevis E. A. Smith, 1885
- Poromya leonina (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1916)
- Poromya malespinae (Ridewood, 1903)
- Poromya neaeroides Sequenza, 1876
- Poromya neozelanica (Dell
  Richard Dell
  Dr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...
  
  , 1956)
- Poromya rostrata Rehder, 1943
- Poromya tenuiconcha (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1913)
- Poromya tornata (Jeffreys, 1876)
- Poromya trosti Strong and Hertlein
  Leo George Hertlein
  Leo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
  
  , 1937

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