Dilemma (bivalve)

Dilemma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Anomalosdesmata
Order:	Pholadomyoida
Family:	Poromyidae
Genus:	Dilemma Leal, 2008
Species
See text.

Dilemma is a genus of marine bivalves of the family Poromyidae. The genus is remarkable for encompassing predators of isopods and ostracods, unusual for sessile molluscs.^[1]

Species

• Dilemma frumarkernorum Leal, 2008
• Dilemma inexpectatum (Crozier, 1966)
• Dilemma japonicum Sasaki & Leal, 2008
• Dilemma spectralis Leal, 2008

References

1. ^ Leal J. H. (2008). "A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa 1764: 1–18. PDF fulltext.

• Includes photo
• Sasaki T. & Leal J. H. (2008). "Dilemma japonicum new species (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae): A new record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific". The Nautilus 122: 166-170. PDF fulltext.

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