mollusk family
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A family of mollusks (synset 101941491)
is a type of: family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more generasubtypes:
- family haliotidae, haliotidae - abalones
- family strombidae, strombidae - the family of conchs
- family helicidae, helicidae - land snails including the common edible snail and some pests
- family limacidae, limacidae - slugs
- family neritidae, neritidae - neritids
- buccinidae, family buccinidae - whelks
- cymatiidae, family cymatiidae - tritons
- family naticidae, naticidae - moonshells
- family littorinidae, littorinidae - periwinkles
- family patellidae, patellidae - marine limpets
- family fissurellidae, fissurellidae - marine limpets
- ancylidae, family ancylidae - freshwater gastropod
- aplysiidae, family aplysiidae, family tethyidae, tethyidae - sea hares
- akeridae, family akeridae - bubble shells
- family physidae, physidae - freshwater snails
- cypraeidae, family cypraeidae - family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries
- family myacidae, myacidae - soft-shell clams
- family veneridae, veneridae - hard-shell clams
- family solenidae, solenidae - razor clams
- family tridacnidae, tridacnidae - large marine hard-shell clams
- cardiidae, family cardiidae - somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks
- family ostreidae, ostreidae - oysters
- family pteriidae, pteriidae - pearl oysters
- anomiidae, family anomiidae - saddle oysters
- arcidae, family arcidae - ark shells
- family mytilidae, mytilidae - marine mussels
- family unionidae, unionidae - freshwater mussels found worldwide
- family pectinidae, pectinidae - scallops
- family teredinidae, teredinidae - shipworms
- family pholadidae, pholadidae - a family of Bivalvia
- family nautilidae, nautilidae - spiral-shelled cephalopods
- family octopodidae, octopodidae - a family of Octopoda
- argonautidae, family argonautidae - represented solely by the genus Argonauta
- family sepiidae, sepiidae - true cuttlefishes
- family spirulidae, spirulidae - coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
- belemnitidae, family belemnitidae - family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods
belongs to: animal kingdom, animalia, kingdom animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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