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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Heterodonta
Infraclassis: Euheterodonta
SuperOrdo: Anomalodesmata
Ordo: Pholadomyoida
Superfamilia: Clavagelloidea

Familia: Clavagellidae
Genus: Clavagella
Species: †C. maxwelli – †C. oamarutica
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References

Morton, B.; Grebneff, A. 2011: A new species and a new record of endobenthic Clavagellidae (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Clavagelloidea) from the Oligocene and Miocene of New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics, 54(1): 125–134. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2011.537611

Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.
Taxonomy

Subgenera:

Clavagella (Bryopa) (Gray 1847)
Clavagella (Clavagella) Blainville 1817
Clavagella (Dacosta) Gray 1858

Species:

†Clavagella elegans Müller, 1859
Clavagella liratum (Tate, 1887)
Clavagella melitensis
Clavagella primigenia Deshayes 1857

Fossil species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

Clavagella elegans is from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Tinrhert in the Sahara province of Algeria.[2] The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[3]
References

Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817
Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202
C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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