Donacidae

Donax trunculus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tellinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Bivalvia Subclassis: Heterodonta Ordo: Veneroida Superfamilia: Tellinoidea

Familia: Donacidae
Genera: Donax – †Egerella – Galatea – Hecuba – Iphigenia – Latona – Tentidonax

Name

Donacidae Fleming, 1828: 409

• Type genus: Donax Linnaeus, 1758

References

Primary references

• Fleming, J. 1828. A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Bell & Bradfute: Edinburgh/James Duncan: London. xxiii + 565 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Bean clam or Wedge shell

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