Poromyidae
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| Poromyidae | |
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| Poromya granulata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Superorder: | Anomalodesmata |
| Superfamily: | Poromyoidea |
| Family: | Poromyidae Dall, 1886 |
| Genera | |
Poromyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Anomalodesmata. The genus Dilemma, described in 2008, is remarkable for being a predator of copepods, which is very unusual for a sessile mollusc.[1]
