Cardita

Some older sources use Cardita for the genus Cardites, and vice versa. See below for details.
Cardita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Subfamily: Carditinae
Genus: Cardita
Bruguière, 1792
Species

See text

Synonyms

"Arcinella" Oken, 1815 (non Schumacher, 1817: non-binomial)
Cardites Lamarck, 1801 (non Link, 1807: nomen rejectum)
Heterocarda Rafinesque, 1815
Herterocarda (lapsus)
Jesonia Gray, 1847 (non Gray, 1840: nomen nudum)
Mytilicadia (lapsus)
Mytilicardes (lapsus)
Mytilicardia Herrmannsen, 1847
Mytilicardita Anton, 1838
and see text

Cardita is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]

Especially in the early 18th century, this genus was often confused with its relative Cardites. This started with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck describing the present genus as Cardites in 1801. However, J.H.F. Link in 1807 used that name to establish a distinct genus. When this was realized, Megerle in 1811 re-described Link's genus as Cardita.

But Cardita had already been validly established for the present genus by J.G. Bruguière in 1792; thus Megerle's action resulted in four technically valid names which formed two mutual pairs of homonyms. The matter was ultimately resolved by starting with the oldest name – that of Bruguière – and applying it as intended, and suppressing Lamarck's name so that Link's junior homonym could be used for Cardites.

In addition to the numerous junior synonyms, Byssomera – usually included in Carditamera nowadays – might actually belong in Cardita too.

Species

References

  1. ↑ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137742
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