''Tagelus'' is a genus of saltwater
clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are deemed edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds. Clams h ...
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marine bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s belonging to the family
Solecurtidae
The Solecurtidae are a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order
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Species
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Tagelus adansonii'' (Bosc, 1801)
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Tagelus affinis'' (C. B. Adams, 1852)
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Tagelus californianus'' (Conrad, 1837)
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Tagelus divisus'' (Spengler, 1794)
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Tagelus dombeii'' (Lamarck, 1818)
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Tagelus longisinuatus'' Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
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Tagelus peruanus'' (Dunker, 1862)
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Tagelus peruvianus'' Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941
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Tagelus plebeius'' (Lightfoot, 1786)
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Tagelus politus'' (Carpenter, 1857)
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Tagelus subteres
''Tagelus subteres'', common name lesser tagelus, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 7 ...
'' (Conrad, 1837)
References
*Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
Solecurtidae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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