Anadara

Anadara is a genus of saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family Arcidae. It is also called Scapharca.^[1]

Anadara Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Numerous live individuals of Anadara granosa on sale as seafood
Fossil of Anadara diluvii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Arcida
Family:	Arcidae
Genus:	Anadara Gray, 1847
Species
See text
Synonyms
List Anadara (Anadara) Gray, 1847 Anadara (Cunearca) Dall, 1898 Anadara (Diluvarca) Woodring, 1925 Anadara (Scapharca) Gray, 1847 Anadara (Tosarca) H. Noda, 1965 Arca (Scapharca) Gray, 1847 Caloosarca Olsson, 1961 Cara Gray, 1857 Cunearca Dall, 1898 Diluvarca Woodring, 1925 Esmerarca Olsson, 1961 Imparilarca Iredale, 1929 Kikaiarca H. Noda, 1966 † Potiarca Iredale, 1939 Rasia Gray, 1857 Scapharca Gray, 1847 Scapharca (Cunearca) Dall, 1898 Scapharcopsis F. Nordsieck, 1969 Sectiarca Olsson, 1961 Tosarca H. Noda, 1965 †

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range: 140.2 to 0.0 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.^[2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Anadara:^[3]

• Anadara adamsi Olsson, 1961
• Anadara aequatorialis (d'Orbigny, 1846)
• Anadara aethiopica (Thiele, 1931)
• Anadara aliena (Iredale, 1939)
• Anadara ambigua (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara amicula (Yokoyama, 1925) †
• Anadara angicostata (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara antiquata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Anadara auriculata Lamarck
• Anadara axelolssoni (Macsotay & Campos, 2001)
• Anadara bataviensis (E. Lamy, 1907)
• Anadara biangulata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Anadara bifrons (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
• Anadara bonplandiana (A. d'Orbigny, 1843) †
• Anadara brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819) - incongruous ark
• Anadara broughtonii (Schrenck, 1867)
• Anadara camerunensis P. G. Oliver & Cosel, 1993
• Anadara cepoides (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara chemnitzii (Philippi, 1851) - Chemnitz ark, triangular ark
• Anadara cistula (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara compacta (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara concinna (Sowerby, 1833)
• Anadara consociata (E. A. Smith, 1885)
• Anadara corbuloides (Monterosato, 1881)
• Anadara cornea (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara corrugata (E. Lamy, 1907)
• Anadara crassicostata (H. Adams, 1873)
• Anadara craticulata (Nyst, 1848)
• Anadara crebricostata (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara cymbaeformis (Reeve, 1844)
• † Anadara diluvii (Lamarck, 1805)
• Anadara disparilis (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara eborensis P. G. Oliver & Cosel, 1993
• Anadara ehrenbergi (Dunker, 1868)
• Anadara emarginata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Anadara esmeralda (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941)
• Anadara ferruginea (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Anadara fultoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1907)
• Anadara geissei (Kobelt, 1891)
• Anadara gibbosa (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara globosa (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara guangdongensis (F. R. Bernard, Cai & B. Morton, 1993)
• Anadara gubernaculum (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara hankeyana (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara hemidesmos (Philippi, 1845)
• Anadara hyphalopilema G. B. Campbell, 1962
• Anadara inaequivalvis (Bruguière, 1789)
• Anadara indica (Gmelin, 1791)
• Anadara jousseaumei (E. Lamy, 1907)
• Anadara jurata Iredale, 1939
• Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
• Anadara kikaizimana (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
• Anadara labiosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Anadara lienosa (Say, 1832)
• Anadara lirata (Philippi, 1887) †
• Anadara livingstonei Iredale, 1927
• Anadara mazatlanica (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1943)
• Anadara muii Thach, 2016
• Anadara natalensis (Krauss, 1848)
• Anadara notabilis (Röding, 1798) - eared ark
• Anadara nugax Iredale, 1939
• Anadara nux (Sowerby, 1833)
• Anadara obesa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Anadara occlusa (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara oceanica (Lesson, 1831)
• Anadara passa Iredale, 1939
• Anadara perlabiata (U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931)
• Anadara pilula (Reeve, 1843)
• Anadara pumila (Dunker, 1868)
• Anadara pygmaea (H. Adams, 1872)
• Anadara reinharti (H. N. Lowe, 1935)
• Anadara rhomboidalis (Schumacher, 1817)
• Anadara rotundicostata (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara rufescens (Reeve, 1844)
• Anadara rugifera (Dunker, 1866)
• Anadara sabinae (Morlet, 1889)
• Anadara satowi (Dunker, 1882)
• Anadara secernenda (E. Lamy, 1907) - Baughman ark, skewed ark
• Anadara secticostata Reeve, 1844
• Anadara senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
• Anadara setigericosta (Nyst, 1848)
• Anadara similis - ark cockle or mangrove cockle^[4]
• Anadara speciosa (Philippi, 1849)
• Anadara subglobosa (Kobelt, 1889)
• Anadara subgranosa (Dunker, 1869)
• Anadara subrubra (Dunker, 1866)
• Anadara tosaensis H. Noda, 1965 †
• Anadara transversa (Say, 1822) - transverse ark
• Anadara trapezia (Deshayes, 1839)
• Anadara tricenicosta (Nyst, 1848)
• Anadara troscheli (Dunker, 1882)
• Anadara tuberculosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) - pustulose ark
• Anadara uropigimelana (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)
• Anadara valentichscotti Thach, 2016
• Anadara vellicata (Reeve, 1844)

Anadara valve interior showing taxodont dentition; Pliocene of Cyprus.

Fossils of Anadara satowi