Genus of bivalves
Venericardia Temporal range: Paleoceneββto Recent
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Venericardia planicosta lerichei Lamarck, 1806 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
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.
It is theββtype genus of subfamily Venericardiinae. The closely related Purpurocardia was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.
Speciesβ»
Species of Venericardia include:
- Venericardia amabilis
- Venericardia bimaculata
- Venericardia ferruginea
- Venericardia granulata
- β Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
- β Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
- Venericardia planicosta
Referencesβ»
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1