Fragum is a

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of cockles, marine

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molluscs 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 ...

in the

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Cardiidae. Members of the genus have characteristic thick, sculptured shells and live buried in sand, extending their siphons to the surface to feed and breathe. They are found in the

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region and the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

Species

The genus includes the following species according to the World Register of Marine Species: *'' Fragum erugatum'' (

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, 1889) *'' Fragum fragum'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

, 1758) *''Fragum funafutiense'' (Ter Poorten & Middelfart, 2021) *''Fragum grasi'' (Ter Poorten, 2009) *''Fragum loochooanum'' (Kira, 1959) *''Fragum mundum'' ( Reeve, 1845) *'' Fragum nivale'' ( Reeve, 1845) *''Fragum scruposum'' (Deshayes, 1855) *''Fragum sueziense'' ( Issel, 1869) *'' Fragum unedo'' (

, 1758) *''Fragum vanuatuense'' (Ter Poorten, 2015) *''Fragum whitleyi'' ( Iredale, 1929)

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