Genus Platidia

Costa, 1852 (Jan.)

Smooth or with radiating lines or spinules on pedicle valve, shell thin and penetrated by minute caeca; deltidial plates narrow, pedicle collar short, sessile. Hinge teeth with feeble dental plates; crura long, converging, crural processes short; descending branches of loop converging. Dorsal pedicle muscles attached to inner side of cardinalia; mantles, body wall, brachial membrane, and bases of filaments strongly spiculate.

Source: Moore, 1965.

The following species that belong to this genus occurs in this region:

Platidia anomioides

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