Phaxas

Phaxas is a genus of small razor shells in the family Pharidae. Members of the genus have a pair of elongate valves and live in soft sediments on the sea bed. They have a muscular foot with which they can dig rapidly and a short siphon which they extend to the surface of the substrate. They are suspension feeders.[1]

Phaxas
Phaxas pellucidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Adapedonta
Family: Pharidae
Genus: Phaxas
Leach in Gray, 1852
Species

See text

Species

The following species are recognised:[2]

  • Phaxas adriaticus (Coen, 1933)
  • Phaxas pellucidus (Pennant, 1777)
  • Phaxas tenellus Cosel, 1993

References

  1. Barrett, J. & C. M. Yonge (1958) Collins Pocket Guide to the Sea Shore. Collins, London
  2. World Register of Marine Species
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