Hippopus | |
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Hippopus hippopus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Cardiida |
Superfamily: | Cardioidea |
Family: | Cardiidae |
Subfamily: | Tridacninae |
Genus: | Hippopus Lamarck, 1799 |
Synonyms | |
Cerceis Gistel, 1848 (Replacement name for Hippopus Lamarck, 1799. Invalid: junior homonym of Cerceis Milne Edwards, 1840) |
Hippopus is a genus of large tropical saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Tridacninae, the giant clam subfamily, of the family Cardiidae.[1]