Venericardia

Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
Venericardia planicosta lericheiLamarck, 1806
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Carditoidea
Family:	Carditidae
Genus:	Venericardia Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms
Venericardita( lapsus ) VenericardiumBeyrich, 1837

Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae. ^[1]

It is the type genus of subfamily Venericardiinae. The closely related Purpurocardia was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.

Species

Species of Venericardia include:^{[ verification needed ]}

• Venericardia amabilis
• Venericardia bimaculata
• Venericardia ferruginea
• Venericardia granulata
• † Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
• † Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
• Venericardia planicosta

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Venericardia Lamarck, 1801 †".

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1