🦋 Family

Glycymerididae

7 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Arcida › Glycymerididae

Glycymeris glycymeris, the dog cockle, is a burrowing bivalve with a thick circular shell found on the seabed to 100 m depth.

Glycymeris longior is a long-lived dioecious clam found in shallow South Atlantic sandy waters off South America.

Glycymeris nummaria is a marine bivalve with a thick circular shell, found from Norway to the Mediterranean in offshore gravels.

Glycymeris americana is a sturdy-shelled bivalve that lives buried in sand or gravel, with size varying by water temperature.

Glycymeris yessoensis is a north Pacific bivalve mollusc that hosts a commensal polychaete worm in its shell.

Tucetona pectinata, the comb bittersweet, is a bivalve mollusc found from North Carolina to the West Indies on the Atlantic coast of North America.

Tucetona laticostata, the large dog cockle, is an endemic New Zealand bivalve found down to 100 metres depth.

Related Families

Arcidae 18 species Noetiidae 1 species

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