Sphaerium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Sphaeriida
- Family
- Sphaeriidae
- Genus
- Sphaerium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sphaerium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sphaerium
Sphaerium is a genus of very small freshwater clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, known as the fingernail clams. The small clams in this genus are unusual in that many of them, such as Sphaerium corneum, can climb around underwater on aquatic plants, using their long and strong foot.
...Sphaerium in languages:
- Czech
- okružanka
- Finnish
- pallosimpukat
- French
- Cyclades
- Latvian
- Pundurgliemeņu dzimta
- Lithuanian
- Rutuliukės
- Russian
- Шаровки
- Ukrainian
- Кулька
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Sphaerium aequatoriale
- Sphaerium asiaticum
- Sphaerium austeni
- Sphaerium avanum
- Sphaerium baicalense
- Sphaerium bequaerti
- Sphaerium cambaraense
- Sphaerium capense
- Sphaerium corneum
- Sphaerium davisi
- Sphaerium fabale
- Sphaerium forbesi
- Sphaerium korotniewii
- Sphaerium lauricochae
- Sphaerium martensi
- Sphaerium mexicanum
- Sphaerium montanum
- Sphaerium nitidum
- Sphaerium novaezelandiae
- Sphaerium nucleus
- Sphaerium nyanzae
- Sphaerium occidentale
- Sphaerium ovale
- Sphaerium patella
- Sphaerium ranae
- Sphaerium rhomboideum
- Sphaerium rivicola
- Sphaerium simile
- Sphaerium solidum
- Sphaerium striatinum
- Sphaerium stuhlmanni
- Sphaerium tasmanicum
- Sphaerium victoriae































































































































































