''Adipicola'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of saltwater clams,
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 in the family
Mytilidae
The Mytilidae are a family (biology), family of small to large Marine life, marine and Brackish water, brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order (biology), order Mytilida. One of the genera, ''Limnoperna fortunei, Limnoperna'', even inhabits f ...
, the mussels.
Species
The
World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms.
Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...
lists the following species:
* ''
Adipicola apenninica''
Danise, Bertolaso & Dominici, 2016 †
* ''
Adipicola chikubetsuensis''
(Amano, 1984) †
* ''
Adipicola crypta''
(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
* ''
Adipicola dubia''
(Prashad, 1932)
* ''
Adipicola iwaotakii''
(Habe, 1958)
* ''
Adipicola leticiae''
Signorelli & Crespo, 2017
* ''
Adipicola longissima''
(Thiele, 1931)
* ''
Adipicola osseocola''
Dell, 1987
* ''
Adipicola pacifica''
(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
* ''
Adipicola pelagica''
(Forbes in Woodward, 1854)
* ''
Adipicola projecta''
(Verco, 1908)
* ''
Adipicola simpsoni''
(Marshall, 1900) is now accepted as ''
Idas simpsoni''
(J. T. Marshall, 1900)
According to
NCBI
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:
* ''
Adipicola arcuatilis''
* ''
Adipicola crypta''
* ''
Adipicola iwaotakii''
* ''
Adipicola longissima''
* ''
Adipicola pacifica''
References
Mytilidae
Bivalve genera
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