''Tegillarca'' 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
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 ...
of the
family Arcidae, the
Ark clams.
Species
Species of this genus include:
* ''
Tegillarca addita''
(Iredale, 1939)
* ''
Tegillarca aequilatera''
(Dunker, 1868)
* ''
Tegillarca bicors''
(Jonas in Philippi, 1845)
* ''
Tegillarca disessa''
(Iredale, 1939)
* ''
Tegillarca granosa''
(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)
* ''
Tegillarca nodifera''
(E. von Martens, 1860)
* ''
Tegillarca rhombea''
(Born, 1778)
* ''
Tegillarca zanzibarensis''
(Nyst, 1848)
References
External links
Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. (1852); Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 (+2) pp. (1853). HafniaeIredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929. 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7
Bivalve genera
{{Arcidae-stub