Carditamera

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Carditamera

Genus of bivalves

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

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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. [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. [2]
    "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carditamera Conrad, 1838".
  3. [3]
    United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. p. 35.
  4. [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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