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Oval Venus

Timoclea ovata (Pennant 1777)

Classification

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Abbott (1974) considers Timoclea Brown, 1827 as a subgenus of Chione Megerle van Mühlfeld, 1811. However, we follow the majority of European authors to use them both as seperate genera.
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Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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