Cardita
- Some older sources use Cardita for the genus Cardites, and vice versa. See below for details.
| Cardita | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Carditoida |
| Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
| Family: | Carditidae |
| Subfamily: | Carditinae |
| Genus: | Cardita Bruguière, 1792 |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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"Arcinella" Oken, 1815 (non Schumacher, 1817: non-binomial) | |
Cardita is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]
Especially in the early 18th century, this genus was often confused with its relative Cardites. This started with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck describing the present genus as Cardites in 1801. However, J.H.F. Link in 1807 used that name to establish a distinct genus. When this was realized, Megerle in 1811 re-described Link's genus as Cardita.
But Cardita had already been validly established for the present genus by J.G. Bruguière in 1792; thus Megerle's action resulted in four technically valid names which formed two mutual pairs of homonyms. The matter was ultimately resolved by starting with the oldest name – that of Bruguière – and applying it as intended, and suppressing Lamarck's name so that Link's junior homonym could be used for Cardites.
In addition to the numerous junior synonyms, Byssomera – usually included in Carditamera nowadays – might actually belong in Cardita too.
Species
- Cardita aviculina Lamarck, 1819
- Cardita caliculaeformis Deshayes in Maillard, 1863
- Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cardita crassicosta Lamarck, 1819
- Cardita distorta Reeve, 1843
- Cardita excisa Philippi, 1847
- Cardita ffinchi (Melvill, 1898)
- Cardita hawaiensis (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
- Cardita kyushuensis (Okutani, 1963)
- Cardita leana Dunker, 1860
- Cardita muricata G.B. Sowerby I, 1833
- Cardita pentunculus Bruguière, 1792
- Cardita pica Reeve, 1843
- Cardita senegalensis Reeve, 1843
- Cardita variegata Bruguière, 1792
- Cardita vinsoni Viader, 1951