Cyclocardia

Cyclocardia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Subfamily: Carditamerinae
Genus: Cyclocardia
Conrad, 1867
Synonyms

Arcturus Humphrey in Sowerby, 1839 (non Latreille, 1829: preoccupied)
Bendeglans Eames, 1957
Crassicardia Savitsky, 1979
and see text

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

The related genus Vimentum is sometimes included here.

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. 45.
  2. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156830
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