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Vesicomyidae is a family

Family (biology)

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of bivalves. Its genera

Genera

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, with some selected species, are:

Adulomya Kuroda, 1931 (includes Ectenagena, may be synonym of Pleurophopsis)
- Adulomya elongata (Dall, 1916)
- Adulomya extenta (Krylova & Moskalev, 1996)
- Adulomya phaseoliformis (Métivier, Okutani & Ohta, 1986)
- Adulomya kaikoi (Okutani & Métivier, 1986)
- Adulomya uchimuraensis Kuroda, 1931 (fossil
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  )
Calyptogena Dall
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, 1891
- Calyptogena magnifica
- Calyptogena pacifica Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1891
Laubiericoncha von Cosel & Olu, 2008
- Laubiericoncha angulata (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1896) (formerly in Vesicomya)
- Laubiericoncha chuni (Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931) (formerly in Vesicomya)
- Laubiericoncha myriamae von Cosel & Olu, 2008
- Laubiericoncha suavis (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1913) (formerly in Vesicomya)
- Laubiericoncha sp. 'Edison Seamount'
- Laubiericoncha sp. 'Gakkel Ridge'
Vesicomya Dall
W. H. Dall
William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

, 1886
- Vesicomya atlantica (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Vesicomya bruuni Filatova, 1969
- Vesicomya caribbea Boss, 1967
- Vesicomya cordata Boss, 1968
- Vesicomya gigas (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1896)
- Vesicomya leeana (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1889)
- Vesicomya lepta (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1896)
- Vesicomya ovalis (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1896)
- Vesicomya pilula (Dall
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  , 1881)
- Vesicomya smithii Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1889
- Vesicomya stearnsii (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1895)
- Vesicomya vesica (Dall
  W. H. Dall
  William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
  
  , 1886)
"Pleurophopsis" Van Winkle, 1919 (fossil
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, nomen dubium
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, sometimes included in Calyptogena)
- "Pleurophopsis" peruviana Olsson, 1931 (fossil
  Fossil
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  )
- "Pleurophopsis" unioides Van Winkle, 1919 (fossil
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  )

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