Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative spelling: Anodontia (Afrophysema)

Full reference: J. D. Taylor and E. A. Glover. 2005. Cryptic diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves: A systematic revision of worldwide Anodontia (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 3:281-338

Parent taxon: Pegophyseminae according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021

See also Taylor and Glover 2005 and von Cosel 2006

Sister taxa: Cavatidens, Pegophysema

Subtaxa: Afrophysema eutornus

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Type: Cryptodon eutornus

Distribution: found only at Port Alfred (Quaternary of South Africa)

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