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Trough Shells
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Trough Shells

Mactridae

Mactridae, common name the trough shells or duck clams, is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Veneroida.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Surfclams

subfamilyMactrinae

Lutrariinae

subfamilyLutrariinae

Resaniinae

subfamilyResaniinae

Darininae

subfamilyDarininae

Tanysiphoninae

subfamilyTanysiphoninae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 117623.