Glossidae

Glossidae is a family of saltwater clams in the superfamily Glossoidea.

Taxonomy

The following genera and species are recognised in the family Glossidae:

• †Fissilunula <small>Etheridge, 1902</small>
• †Fissilunula clarkei <small>(C. Moore, 1870)</small>
• †Fissilunula coreenaensis <small>Day, 2025</small>
• Glossus
• †Glossus abichianus <small>(Romanovsky, 1890)</small>
• †Glossus eichwaldianus <small>(Romanovsky, 1890)</small>
• †Glossus gigantaeus <small>(Ovechkin, 1954)</small>
• Glossus humanus <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> – oxheart clam
• †Glossus lunulatus <small>(Nyst, 1835)</small>
• †Glossus major <small>(Hölzl, 1958)</small>
• †Glossus neocomiensis <small>(Agassiz, 1842)</small>
• †Glossus olearii <small>(O. Semper, 1861)</small>
• †Glossus subtransversus <small>(A. d'Orbigny, 1852)</small>
• Meiocardia <small>H. and A. Adams, 1857</small>
• Meiocardia cumingi <small>(A. Adams, 1864)</small>
• †Meiocardia faxensis <small>(Lundgren, 1867)</small>
• †Meiocardia floridana <small>(Dall, 1900)</small>
• Meiocardia hawaiana <small>Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938</small>
• †Meiocardia incognita <small>Zubkovitsch, 1961</small>
• Meiocardia moltkiana <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
• †Meiocardia palmerae <small>Nicol, 1968</small>
• Meiocardia samarangiae <small>F. R. Bernard, Y. Cai & B. Morton, 1993</small>
• Meiocardia sanguineomaculata <small>(Dunker, 1882)</small>
• †Meiocardia septemcostata <small>Wanner & Hahn, 1935</small>
• †Meiocardia subcumingii <small>(H. Woodward, 1879)</small>
• †Meiocardia susukii <small>(Squires & Advocate, 1986)</small>
• Meiocardia vulgaris <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis <small>Glibert, 1936</small>
• †Miocardiopsis carinata <small>(Deshayes, 1829)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis chonioides <small>(Cossmann, 1886)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis eocaenica <small>(Bayan, 1873)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis isocardioides <small>(Deshayes, 1858)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis laciniosa <small>(Staadt, 1913)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis loustaui <small>(Cossmann, 1886)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis subquadrata <small>(Cossmann, 1886)</small>
• †Miocardiopsis tapina <small>(Cossmann, 1886)</small>
• †Petalocardia <small>É. Vincent, 1925</small>
• †Petalocardia pectinifera <small>(J. De C. Sowerby, 1823)</small>

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