Carditamera

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Carditamera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Genus: Carditamera
Conrad, 1838
Synonyms

ByssomeraOlsson, 1961
LazariaGray, 1854

Carditamera gracilis shell Carditamera gracilis (Shuttleworth, 1856) 000.jpg
Carditamera gracilis shell

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

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

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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.