Carditamera

Carditamera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Subfamily: Carditamerinae
Genus: Carditamera
Conrad, 1838
Synonyms

Byssomera Olsson, 1961 (disputed)
Lazaria Gray, 1854

Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.[1][2]

It is the type genus of the subfamily Carditamerinae.

Byssomera is usually included in Carditamera as a junior synonym nowadays, but might actually belong in the related genus Cardita.

Species

  • Carditamera affinis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Carditamera arata (Conrad, 1838)
  • Carditamera contigua (Dautzenberg, 1910)
  • Carditamera gracilis (Shuttleworth, 1856) — West Indian cardita
  • Carditamera plata (Ihering, 1907)
  • Carditamera radiata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)

References

  1. ↑ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 44.
  2. ↑ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415159


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