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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A superfamily of teleodesmaceous pelecypods which is characterized by having the incurrent and excurrent openings between the mantle-lobes at opposite ends of the body. It comprises Tertiary and recent species, and numerous commensal and parasitic forms.

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