Carditamera

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

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

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)