Carditamera
| Carditamera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Carditida |
| Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
| Family: | Carditidae |
| Genus: | Carditamera Conrad, 1838 |
| Synonyms | |
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Byssomera Olsson, 1961 | |
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
- 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carditamera Conrad, 1838".
- ^ United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. p. 35.
- ^ 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.