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Mesodesmatidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Veneroida.
Description
Shells are of moderate to large size, solid, porcellanous, laterally elongated or wedge-shaped, and usually compressed. The ligament is weak and inconspicuous, and the resilium is long, narrowly wedge-shaped, and seated in a spoon-shaped chrondrophore. The hinge of the right valve has a thin oblique cardinal in front of the resilium, and two divergent laterals, with sockets and paired laterals in the opposite valve. The pallial sinus is moderate to deep.
Habitat
Found in shallow water on coastal beaches.
Genera
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- "Mesodesmatidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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