Dilemma (bivalve)

Dilemma is a genus of marine bivalves of the family Poromyidae. The genus is remarkable for encompassing predators of isopods and ostracods, unusual for sessile molluscs.[1]

Dilemma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Anomalodesmata
Superfamily: Poromyoidea
Family: Poromyidae
Genus: Dilemma
Leal, 2008
Species

See text.

Species
  • Dilemma frumarkernorum Leal, 2008
  • Dilemma inexpectatum (Crozier, 1966)
  • Dilemma japonicum Sasaki & Leal, 2008
  • Dilemma spectralis Leal, 2008
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References
  1. Leal J. H. (2008). "A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa 1764: 1–18. PDF fulltext.
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  • Sasaki T. & Leal J. H. (2008). "Dilemma japonicum new species (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae): A new record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific". The Nautilus 122: 166-170. PDF fulltext.


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