Carditamera

Carditamera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Carditoidea
Family:	Carditidae
Genus:	Carditamera; Conrad, 1838
Synonyms
	Byssomera Olsson, 1961; Lazaria Gray, 1854

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

Carditamera gracilis shell

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)

References

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.
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415159
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. p. 35.
Olsson, Axel A. (Axel Adolf) (1961). Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific : particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru) ; Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. MBLWHOI Library. Ithaca, N.Y. : Paleontological Research Institution.

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[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] ttp://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415159

[3] United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. p. 35.

[4] Olsson, Axel A. (Axel Adolf) (1961). Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific : particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru) ; Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. MBLWHOI Library. Ithaca, N.Y. : Paleontological Research Institution.