Meiocardia

Meiocardia Temporal range: Maastrichtian–present, 72.1–0  Ma [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
M. moltkiana fossil in the MNHN
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Glossoidea
Family:	Glossidae
Genus:	Meiocardia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 [2] [3]
Type species
Chama moltkiana Gmelin, 1791
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Bucardia (Meiocardia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 Glossus (Meiocardia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 †Isocardia (Meiocardia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 Isocardia (Miocardia) P. Fischer, 1887 †MiocardiaP. Fischer, 1887

Meiocardia is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Glossidae. ^{[2] [4]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Meiocardia: ^[2]

• Meiocardia cumingi (A. Adams, 1864)
• † Meiocardia faxensis (Lundgren, 1867)
• † Meiocardia floridana (Dall, 1900)
• Meiocardia hawaiana Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
• † Meiocardia incognita Zubkovitsch, 1961
• Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)
• † Meiocardia palmerae Nicol, 1968
• Meiocardia samarangiae Bernard, Cai & Morton, 1993
• Meiocardia sanguineomaculata (Dunker, 1882)
• † Meiocardia septemcostata Wanner & Hahn, 1935
• † Meiocardia subcumingii (H. Woodward, 1879)
• † Meiocardia susukii Squires & Advocate, 1986
• Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)

References

1. "Meiocardia Adams and A. 1857". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
2. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2025). "Meiocardia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 19 August 2025.
3. Adams, Henry; Adams, Arthur (1858). The Genera of Recent Mollusca. Vol. 2. London: John van Voorst. p. 461.
4. Matsukuma, Akihiko; Habe, Tadashige (1995). Bouchet, Philippe (ed.). "Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia)". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167 (Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14): 77–91.

Further reading

• Stoliczka, Ferd. (1871). "Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Vol. III. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known Genera of this class, fossil and recent". Palaeontographica Indica: 167.