Meretrix
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Present
~94.3–0 Ma
Meretrix lyrata (Sowerby, 1851) for sale as food in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China
A whole shell of Meretrix lyrata showing both the outside and the inside
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Veneroidea
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Meretrix
Lamarck 1799
Type species
Meretrix lyrata
Sowerby 1851
Species

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Synonyms
  • Cytheraea (Meretrix) Lamarck 1805
  • Cytherea (Meretrix) Lamarck 1805

Meretrix is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. They appeared in the fossil record in the Cenomanian age.

Species

This section is missing information about ~10 more extant species (and even more extinct, hehe), use MolluscaBase. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (April 2023)

Species in the genus Meretrix include:[1]

References

  1. ^ Meretrix at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Meretrix lamarckii at GBIF
  3. ^ Meretrix meretrix at WoRMS
  4. ^ a b c Idris, Mohd Hanafi; Abu Hena, Mustafa Kamal; Hamli, Hadi; Rajaee, Amy; Al-Asif, Abdulla- (16 December 2022). "The molecular approach reveals the relationship among Venus clams (Meretrix spp.) community in Malaysia" (PDF). Biotropia. 29 (3): 213–224. doi:10.11598/btb.2022.29.3.1583.
  5. ^ Hsiao, Sheng-Tai; Chuang, Shih-Chang (2023). "Meretrix taiwanica (Bivalvia: Veneridae), a previously misidentified new species in Taiwan". Molluscan Research. 43 (1). Taylor & Francis Group: 12–21. Bibcode:2023MollR..43...12H. doi:10.1080/13235818.2023.2189428.
  6. ^ Goin et al., 2006, p.506
  7. ^ Ras al Khaimah, UAE at Fossilworks.org

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