Acanthocardia

Acanthocardia
Anthocardia aculeata, the spiny cockle
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Cardiida
Family:	Cardiidae
Genus:	Acanthocardia J. E. Gray, 1851

Acanthocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. Like most other bivalves, these mollusks are suspension feeders. This genus is present from the Upper Oligocene to the Recent.

Species

• Acanthocardia aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
• Acanthocardia deshayesii Payraudeau, 1826
• Acanthocardia echinata Linnaeus, 1758
• Acanthocardia mucronata Poli, 1795
• Acanthocardia paucicostata Sowerby, 1834
• Acanthocardia spinosa Lightfoot, 1786
• Acanthocardia tuberculata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gallery

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  Anthocardia tuberculata. Illustration from Natural History: Mollusca (1854), p. 271
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  Acanthocardia echinata. Shell on sand.
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  Fossil of Anthocardia tuberculata, Pliocene, Asti (Italy)

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References

• Biolib
• World Register of Marine Species.
• Paleobiology Database
• Sepkoski Online