Carditamera

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

Carditamera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Genus: Carditamera
Conrad, 1838
Synonyms

Byssomera Olsson, 1961
Lazaria Gray, 1854

Carditamera gracilis shell

It is the type genus of the subfamily Carditamerinae. Byssomera is a junior synonym or subgenus of Carditamera but has sometimes been written as a subgenus of Cardita, due to its type species having been synonymised from Cardita (Byssomera) affinis to Carditamera (Byssomera) affinis.[3][4]

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. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carditamera Conrad, 1838".
  3. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. p. 35.
  4. Olsson, Axel A. (Axel Adolf) (1961). Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific : particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru) ; Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. MBLWHOI Library. Ithaca, N.Y. : Paleontological Research Institution.


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