Carditamera

Carditamera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Subfamily: Carditamerinae
Genus: Carditamera
Conrad, 1838
Synonyms

Byssomera Olsson, 1961 (disputed)
Lazaria Gray, 1854

Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.[1][2]

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

References

  1. 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.
  2. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415159


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.