Carditamera
Genus of bivalves
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Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.[1][2]
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| Carditamera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Carditida |
| Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
| Family: | Carditidae |
| Genus: | Carditamera Conrad, 1838 |
| Synonyms | |
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Byssomera Olsson, 1961 | |
It is the type genus of the subfamily Carditamerinae. Byssomera is a junior synonym or subgenus of Carditamera but has sometimes been written as a subgenus of Cardita, due to its type species having been synonymised from Cardita (Byssomera) affinis to Carditamera (Byssomera) affinis.[3][4]
Species
- Carditamera affinis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Carditamera arata (Conrad, 1838)
- Carditamera contigua (Dautzenberg, 1910)
- Carditamera gracilis (Shuttleworth, 1856) – West Indian cardita
- Carditamera plata (Ihering, 1907)
- Carditamera radiata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
