Gryphaeidae
Family of bivalves
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The Gryphaeidae, common name the foam oysters or honeycomb oysters, are a family of marine bivalve mollusks. This family of bivalves is very well represented in the fossil record, however the number of living species is very few.
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| Specimens of Gryphaea articulata from the Jurassic of France | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreida |
| Superfamily: | Ostreoidea |
| Family: | Gryphaeidae Vyalov, 1936 |
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All species have shells cemented to a substrate. Shells are considered brittle, inequivalve, with the left, lower (cemented) valve convex and the right (upper, non-cemented) valve flat or slightly concave.[2]
Subfamilies
Genera and species
Genera and species within the family Gryphaeidae include: Family Gryphaeidae Vialov, 1936 (some genera also known as Devil's toenails)
- Subfamily †Exogyrinae Vialov, 1936
- Genus †Aetostreon Bayle, 1878
- Genus †Amphidonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
- Genus †Costagyra Vialov, 1936
- Genus †Exogyra Say, 1820
- Genus †Fluctogyra Vialov, 1936
- Genus †Gryphaeostrea Conrad, 1865
- Genus †Gyrostrea Mirkamalov, 1963
- Genus †Ilymatogyra Stenzel, 1971
- Genus †Nanogyra Beurlen, 1958
- Genus †Nutogyra Vialov, 1936
- Genus †Planospirites Lamarck, 1801
- Genus †Vultogryphaea Vialov, 1936
- Subfamily †Gryphaeinae Vialov, 1936
- Subfamily Pycnodonteinae Stenzel, 1959
- Genus †Gigantostrea (Sacco, 1897)
- Genus Hyotissa Stenzel, 1971
- Genus †Labrostrea Vialov, 1936
- Genus Neopycnodonte Stenzel, 1971
- Genus †Pycnodonte (Fischer von Waldheim, 1835)
- Genus †Texigryphaea Stenzel, 1959
- Subfamily Incertae sedis
- Genus †Rhynchostreon Bayle, 1878
