''Rangia'' is a genus of

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 or clams in the subfamily Mactrinae of the

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Mactridae Mactridae, common name the trough shells or duck clams, is a family (biology), family of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusks in the order (biology), order Venerida. Description These clams have two short siphons, each with a ...

Species

There are three species: * '' Rangia cuneata'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) – Atlantic rangia * '' Rangia flexuosa'' (Conrad, 1840) – Brown rangia * † '' Rangia johnsoni'' Dall, 1898 * '' Rangia mendica'' (Gould, 1851) ;Synonyms: * ''Rangia cyrenoides'' Des Moulins, 1832: synonym of ''Rangia cuneata'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)

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.

External links

Sowerby, G. B. I. (1821-1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. Published in 42 numbers.

Gill, T. (1895). Rangia the proper name of the mactroid genus Gnathodon. The Nautilus. 8(9): 102-103
Mactridae Bivalve genera Taxa named by Charles des Moulins {{bivalve-stub