Phaxas | |
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Shell of Phaxas tenellus (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Adapedonta |
Superfamily: | Solenoidea |
Family: | Pharidae |
Genus: |
Phaxas Leach in Gray, 1852 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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Phaxas is a genus of small razor shells in the family Pharidae. Members of the genus have a pair of elongate valves and live in soft sediments on the sea bed. They have a muscular foot with which they can dig rapidly and a short siphon which they extend to the surface of the substrate. They are suspension feeders. [1]
The following species are recognised: [2]
Species brought into synonymy:
Phaxas | |
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Shell of Phaxas tenellus (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Adapedonta |
Superfamily: | Solenoidea |
Family: | Pharidae |
Genus: |
Phaxas Leach in Gray, 1852 |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
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Phaxas is a genus of small razor shells in the family Pharidae. Members of the genus have a pair of elongate valves and live in soft sediments on the sea bed. They have a muscular foot with which they can dig rapidly and a short siphon which they extend to the surface of the substrate. They are suspension feeders. [1]
The following species are recognised: [2]
Species brought into synonymy: