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Definition of Family Pholadidae
1. Noun. A family of Bivalvia.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Bivalvia, Class Bivalvia, Class Lamellibranchia, Class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia
Member holonyms: Genus Pholas, Pholas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pholadidae
Literary usage of Family Pholadidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... of the family Pholadidae into Natural Groups By JOHN" EDWARD GRAY, Esq., FRS,
Vice-President of the Zoological Society. I have therefore been induced to ..."
2. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"An attempt to arrange the species of the family Pholadidae into natural groups.
Ann. Mag. Hist., vol. 8, pp. 380-386. 1852. ..."
3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The pholas or piddock (Pholas '..dactylus) is a typical species of the molluscan
family Pholadidae, which includes other stone- borers as well. ..."
4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The pholas or piddock (Pholas dactylus) is a typical species of the molluscan
family Pholadidae, which includes other stone- borers as well. ..."
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