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Cardiidae

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n.1.a natural family of somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.
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Noun1.Cardiidae - somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks
family Cardiidae
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
Bivalvia, class Bivalvia, class Lamellibranchia, class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia - oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
Cardium, genus Cardium - type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles
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According to Ilmari Valovirta, this mussel belongs to the family Cardiidae, and the specific species is presumably Cerastoderma glaucum (Engl.
A review of Neolithic multi-room housepits as seen from the ... by Mokkonen, Teemu / Estonian Journal of Archaeology
The cockle Fulvia mutica (Reeve) classified to Cardiidae is distributed from north of the Yellow Sea in China, south of Mutsu Bay to Kyushu in Japan, and the Korean Peninsula coastal waters and inhabits from intertidal to muddy-sand bottoms at a depth of 50 m buried in bottom sands and gravels.
Seasonal variations in reproductive activity and biochemical ... by Liu, Wenguang; Li, Qi; Yuan, Yundang; Zhang, Shaohua / Journal of Shellfish Research
KEY WORDS: age determination, validation, sexual maturity, marginal increment ratio, Greenland smoothcockle, smoothcockle, Serripes groenlandicus INTRODUCTION The Greenland smoothcockle (Serripes groenlandicus, Bruguiere 1789) belongs to the family Cardiidae and is an infaunal suspension feeder.
Age determination, validation, growth and minimum size of sexual ... by Kilada, Raouf W.; Roddick, Dale; Mombourquette, Kathryn / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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