Clavagella

Clavagella Temporal range: 72.1–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Family:	Clavagellidae
Genus:	Clavagella Blainville 1817[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Bacilia Gray, 1858

Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.

Taxonomy

Subgenera:

• Clavagella (Bryopa) (Gray 1847)
• Clavagella (Clavagella) Blainville 1817
• Clavagella (Dacosta) Gray 1858

Species:

• †Clavagella elegans Müller, 1859
• Clavagella liratum (Tate, 1887)
• Clavagella melitensis
• Clavagella primigenia Deshayes 1857

Fossil species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

Clavagella elegans is from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Tinrhert in the Sahara province of Algeria.[2] The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[3]

References

1. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817
2. Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202
3. C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

External links

• "Clavagella". The Encyclopedia of Life.