Venericardia

Venericardia
Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Subfamily: Venericardiinae
Genus: Venericardia
Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms

Venericardita (lapsus)
Venericardium Beyrich, 1837

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:

References

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