Sahyadri Conservation Series: 17 ENVIS Technical Report: 48,  April 2012
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Edible Bivalves of Central West Coast, Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka, India
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Ramachandra T.V.                Subash Chandran M.D.                Joshi N.V.                Boominathan M.
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

CLASSIFICATION OF EDIBLE BIVALVES OF UTTARA KANNADA

Kingdom         : Animalia
Phylum            : Mollusca
Class                : Bivalvia
Subclass          : Pteriomorphia
Order               : Arcoida
Super family    : Arcoidea
Family             : Arcidae
Genus              : Anadara (Gray, 1847)

1. Anadara granosa (Linnaeus)
Order               : Ostreoida
Suborder         : Ostreina
Super family    : Ostredidea
Family             : Ostreidae
Genus              : Crassostrea (Sacco, 1897)

2. Crassostrea madrasensis (Preston)
Genus              : Saccostrea (Dollfus and Dautzenberg, 1920)

3. Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778)
Subclass          : Heterodonta
Order               : Veneroida
Super family    : Corbiculoidea
Family             : Corbiculidae
Genus              : Polymesoda

4. Polymesoda erosa (Solander)
Genus              : Villorita

5. Villorita cyprinoides (Gray)
Super family    : Veneroidea
Family             : Veneridae
Genus              : Meretrix (Lamarck, 1799)

6. Meretrix casta (Deshayes)

7. Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus)
Genus              : Paphia

8. Paphia malabarica (Chenmitz)

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