Anadara
Overview
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of saltwater bivalves, ark clam
Ark clam
Ark clam is the common name for a family of small to large-sized saltwater clams or marine bivalve molluscs in the family Arcidae. Ark clams vary both in shape and size. They number about 200 species worldwide....
s, in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Arcidae.
Species within the genus Anadara include:
- Anadara auriculata Lamarck
- Anadara baughmani HertleinLeo George HertleinLeo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
, 1951 - baughman ark, skewed ark - Anadara brasilianaAnadara brasilianaAnadara brasiliana, or the incongruous ark clam, is a clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Brazil....
(Lamarck, 1819) - incongruous ark - Anadara chemnitziiAnadara chemnitziiAnadara chemnitzi, or Chemnitz's ark clam, is a clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found in Caribbean waters, ranging from Texas to the West Indies and Brazil....
(PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1851) - chemnitz ark, triangular ark - Anadara concinna (Sowerby, 1833)
- Anadara floridanaAnadara floridanaAnadara floridana, or the cut-ribbed ark clam, is a clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Texas, including the West Indies....
(ConradTimothy Abbott ConradTimothy Abbott Conrad was an American geologist, malacologist and carcinologist.- External links :* at Internet Archive...
, 1869) - cut-ribbed ark - Anadara grandis (Broderip and Sowerby, 1829)
- Anadara granosaBlood cockleAnadara granosa is a species of ark clam known as the blood cockle due to the red haemoglobin liquid inside. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region from eastern Africa to Australia to Polynesia to Japan. It lives mainly in the intertidal zone at one to two metres water depth, burrowed down...
(L., 1758) - blood cockle - Anadara lienosa (SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1832) - Anadara multicostata (G.
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