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Venerida
Sign in to saveVenerida (formerly Veneroida) is an order of mostly saltwater but also some freshwater bivalve molluscs. This order includes many familiar groups such as many clams that are valued for food and a number of freshwater bivalves.
Species
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ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderVenerida
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 930
- With media
- 31
- Collections
- LACM, PRI
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Imparidentia
- Image
- Venus verrucosa.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Veneroida
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- taxon name
- Venerida
- taxon rank
- order
- topic has template
- Template:Taxonomy/Venerida
- topic's main category
- Category:Venerida
- Commons category
- Venerida
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1854
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Orders and families
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Venerida (formerly Veneroida) is an order of mostly saltwater but also some freshwater bivalve molluscs. This order includes many familiar groups such as many clams that are valued for food and a number of freshwater bivalves.
Since the 2000s, the taxonomy currently represented in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) classifies several taxa contained in the former Veneroida into other orders, such as the new Cardiida (for Cardioidea and Tellinoidea) and Carditida (cockles and their allies).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venerida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.