Carditamera

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Carditoidea Subfamily Carditamerinae Rank Genus		Class Bivalvia Family Carditidae Phylum Mollusca Order Carditoida
Similar Carditidae, Cardites, Cardita, Trachycardium, Carditoida

Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.

It is the type genus of the subfamily Carditamerinae.

Byssomera is usually included in Carditamera as a junior synonym nowadays, but might actually belong in the related genus Cardita.

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)

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