Venericardia
Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
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Venericardia planicosta lerichei Lamarck, 1806 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Subclass: | Heterodonta |
Order: | Carditida |
Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
Family: | Carditidae |
Genus: | Venericardia Lamarck, 1801 |
Synonyms | |
Venericardita (lapsus) |
Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]
It is the type genus of subfamily . The closely related was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.
Species[]
Species of Venericardia include:[verification needed]
- † (Gmelin, 1791)
- † (Boehm, 1903)
References[]
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Categories:
- Carditidae
- Bivalve genera
- Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck