Venericardia
Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]
| Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Carditida |
| Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
| Family: | Carditidae |
| Genus: | Venericardia Lamarck, 1801 |
| Synonyms | |
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Venericardita (lapsus) | |
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:
- Venericardia amabilis
- Venericardia bimaculata
- Venericardia ferruginea
- Venericardia granulata
- †Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
- †Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
- Venericardia planicosta
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References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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