Definition of Family pholadidae

1. Noun. A family of Bivalvia.

Exact synonyms: Pholadidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Bivalvia, Class Bivalvia, Class Lamellibranchia, Class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia
Member holonyms: Genus Pholas, Pholas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pholadidae

family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae
family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae
family Phyllostomidae
family Phylloxeridae
family Physeteridae
family Physidae
family Phytolaccaceae
family Picidae
family Pieridae
family Pinaceae

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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