Grippina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Family: Spheniopsidae
Genus: Grippina
Dall, 1912
Species

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Grippina[1] is a genus of bivalves in the family Spheniopsidae which currently consists of nine species.[2] It was first described by William Dall in 1912 with G. californica recorded in the eastern Pacific Ocean near California, US.[1] Their habitat spans across the Pacific Ocean, mainly centering around Australia and New Zealand,[3] though G. coronata was found in 2015 off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the western Atlantic Ocean.[4] Bivalves in the genus Grippina are part of the order Anomalodesmata, also known as septibranchs, which are carnivorous clams. They use their inhalant siphons, adapted with sensory papillae (sometimes cited as tentacles[5]) to detect motion, to inhale microscopic crustaceans such as ostracods.[4] As sessile, benthic predators, they lie in wait under sand and stick their siphons out into open water to feed.[4] Their shells range in size from about 2–5 millimeters.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum; Museum, Bailey-Matthews Shell; American Malacologists; History, Delaware Museum of Natural (1911). The Nautilus. Vol. v.25 (1911–1912). Melbourne, Fla., etc: American Malacologists, inc., etc.
  2. ↑ "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Grippina Dall, 1912". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DIJKSTRA, HENK H.; MARSHALL, BRUCE A. (2008-03-14). "The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae)". Molluscan Research. 28 (1): 1–88. doi:10.11646/mr.28.1.1. ISSN 1323-5818.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Morton, Brian; Machado, Fabrizio Marcondes; Passos, Flávio Dias (2015-11-18). "The smallest carnivorous bivalve? Biology, morphology and behaviour ofGrippina coronata(Anomalodesmata: Cuspidarioidea: Spheniopsidae) preying on epipsammic microcrustaceans in the southwestern Atlantic off Brazil". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 82 (2): 244–258. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyv055. ISSN 0260-1230.
  5. ↑ Reid, Robert G. B.; Crosby, Suzin Porteous (1980-04-01). "The raptorial siphonal apparatus of the carnivorous septibranch Cardiomya planetica Dall (Mollusca:Bivalvia), with notes on feeding and digestion". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 58 (4): 670–679. doi:10.1139/z80-096. ISSN 0008-4301.
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