Glossidae

Glossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea.

Glossidae
A view of the umbonal area of Glossus humanus, the oxheart clam
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Bivalvia
Order:Venerida
Superfamily:Glossoidea
Family:GlossidaeGray, 1847
See text
Isocardiidae J. E. Gray, 1840

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Glossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea.

The following genera and species are recognised in the family Glossidae:

  • †Fissilunula Etheridge, 1902
    • †Fissilunula clarkei (C. Moore, 1870)
    • †Fissilunula coreenaensis Day, 2025
  • Glossus
    • †Glossus abichianus (Romanovsky, 1890)
    • †Glossus eichwaldianus (Romanovsky, 1890)
    • †Glossus gigantaeus (Ovechkin, 1954)
    • Glossus humanus Linnaeus, 1758 – oxheart clam
    • †Glossus lunulatus (Nyst, 1835)
    • †Glossus major (Hölzl, 1958)
    • †Glossus neocomiensis (Agassiz, 1842)
    • †Glossus olearii (O. Semper, 1861)
    • †Glossus subtransversus (A. d'Orbigny, 1852)
  • Meiocardia H. and A. Adams, 1857
    • Meiocardia cumingi (A. Adams, 1864)
    • †Meiocardia faxensis (Lundgren, 1867)
    • †Meiocardia floridana (Dall, 1900)
    • Meiocardia hawaiana Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
    • †Meiocardia incognita Zubkovitsch, 1961
    • Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)
    • †Meiocardia palmerae Nicol, 1968
    • Meiocardia samarangiae F. R. Bernard, Y. Cai & B. Morton, 1993
    • Meiocardia sanguineomaculata (Dunker, 1882)
    • †Meiocardia septemcostata Wanner & Hahn, 1935
    • †Meiocardia subcumingii (H. Woodward, 1879)
    • †Meiocardia susukii (Squires & Advocate, 1986)
    • Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)
  • †Miocardiopsis Glibert, 1936
    • †Miocardiopsis carinata (Deshayes, 1829)
    • †Miocardiopsis chonioides (Cossmann, 1886)
    • †Miocardiopsis eocaenica (Bayan, 1873)
    • †Miocardiopsis isocardioides (Deshayes, 1858)
    • †Miocardiopsis laciniosa (Staadt, 1913)
    • †Miocardiopsis loustaui (Cossmann, 1886)
    • †Miocardiopsis subquadrata (Cossmann, 1886)
    • †Miocardiopsis tapina (Cossmann, 1886)
  • †Petalocardia É. Vincent, 1925
    • †Petalocardia pectinifera (J. De C. Sowerby, 1823)

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