Clavagellidae

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title: "Clavagellidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["clavagellidae", "bivalve-families", "taxa-named-by-alcide-d'orbigny", "extant-campanian-first-appearances"] description: "Family of bivalves" topic_path: "general/clavagellidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavagellidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of bivalves ::

| fossil_range = | image = Brechites attrahens.jpg | image_caption = Brechites attrahens, a species of the family Clavagellidae | taxon = Clavagellidae | authority = d'Orbigny, 1843 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text

Clavagellidae is a family of very unusual marine bivalves of the order Anomalodesmata.

Genera and species

• †Ascaulocardium Pojeta and N. F 1987
• Brechites Guettard 1770
  • Brechites attrahens
  • Brechites brechites
  • Brechites dichotomus
  • Brechites giganteus
  • Brechites javanus
  • Brechites penis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Brechites philippinensis (Chenu, 1842)
  • Brechites pulchrum
  • Brechites pyriformis
  • Brechites radix (Gray, 1858)
  • Brechites ramosus
  • Brechites sparsus
  • Brechites strangulatus
  • Brechites vaginiferus (Lamarck, 1818)
  • Brechites veitchi
• Clavagella Blainville 1817
• Humphreyia Gray 1858
• Penicillus Bruguière 1789
• †Stirpulina Stoliczka 1870

References

• S Peter Dance, Shells Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London 1992
• Brechites species

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