Venericardia
| Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
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| Genus: | Venericardia Lamarck, 1801
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Venericardita (lapsus) | |
Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]
It is the type genus of subfamily Venericardiinae. The closely related Purpurocardia was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.
Species of Venericardia include:[verification needed]
- Venericardia amabilis
- Venericardia bimaculata
- Venericardia ferruginea
- Venericardia granulata
- †Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
- †Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
- Venericardia planicosta
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1