Meretrix (bivalve)
| Meretrix Temporal range: Cenomanian–Present ~ | |
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| Meretrix lyrata (Sowerby, 1851) for sale as food in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China | |
| A whole shell of Meretrix lyrata showing both the outside and the inside | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Meretrix Lamarck 1799 |
| Type species | |
| Meretrix lyrata Sowerby 1851 | |
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Meretrix is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. They appeared in the fossil record in the Cenomanian age.