Pharidae is a

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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 order

Adapedonta Adapedonta is an order of bivalves belonging to the class Bivalvia Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marin ...

. This family of

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 ...

s is related to the razor shells, a family which is considered to include Pharidae by some authorities.

Genera

Genera within the family Pharidae include: * '' Cenonovaculina'' Morlet, 1889 * '' Afrophaxas'' Cosel, 1993 * '' Cultellus'' Schumacher, 1817 * '' Ensiculus'' H. Adams, 1860 * ''

Ensis ''Ensis'' is a genus of medium-sized edible saltwater clams, littoral bivalve molluscs in the family Pharidae. ''Ensis'', or razor clams, are known in much of Scotland as spoots, for the spouts of water they eject while burrowing into the san ...

'' Schumacher, 1817 * '' Leguminaria'' Schumacher, 1817 * '' Nasopharus'' Cosel, 1993 * '' Neosiliqua'' Habe, 1965 * ''

Novaculina ''Novaculina'' is a genus of bivalves within the family Pharidae. Members of this genus are found throughout Asia in freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of di ...

'' Benson, 1830 * '' Orbicularia'' Deshayes, 1850 * '' Pharella'' Gray, 1854 * '' Pharus'' Leach in Brown, 1844 * ''

Phaxas ''Phaxas'' is a genus of small razor shells in the family Pharidae. Members of the genus have a pair of elongate valves and live in soft sediments on the sea bed. They have a muscular foot with which they can dig rapidly and a short siphon which ...

'' Leach in Gray, 1852 * ''

Siliqua The siliqua (. siliquas or siliquae) is the modern namegiven without any ancient evidence to confirm the designationto small, thin, Roman silver coins produced in the 4th century and later. When the coins were in circulation, the Latin word wa ...

'' Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 * ''

Sinonovacula ''Sinonovacula'' is a genus of bivalves. Species include: *'' Sinonovacula constricta'' (Lamarck, 1818) *'' Sinonovacula mollis'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874) References Pharidae Bivalve genera {{Bivalve-stub ...

'' Prashad, 1924 * '' Sinucultellus'' Cosel, 1993 * ''

Sinupharus ''Sinupharus'' is a genus of bivalves, belonging to the family Pharidae Pharidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs in the order Adapedonta. This family of cl ...

'' Cosel, 1993World Register of Marine Species
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References

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