family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
bivalves
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed by a calcified exoskeleton consis ...
in the superorder
Anomalodesmata
Anomalodesmata is an superorder (biology), superorder of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs. This grouping was formerly recognised as a taxonomic subclass (biology), subclass. It is called a superorder in the current World R ...
. It includes both cementing and burrowing species.
Genera
There are four genera within the family Myochamidae:
* '' Hunkydora'' Fleming, 1948
* '' Myadora'' Gray, 1840
* '' Myadoropsis'' Habe, 1960
* '' Myochama'' Stutchbury, 1830