Meiocardia

Meiocardia
M. moltkiana fossil in the MNHN
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Glossoidea
Family: Glossidae
Genus: Meiocardia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857[1][2]
Type species
Chama moltkiana
Gmelin, 1791
Species

See text.

Meiocardia is a genus of bivalve.[3]

Species

As of 2017, WoRMS classifies the following six species as belonging to Meiocardia:[1]

  • Meiocardia cumingi (A. Adams, 1864)
  • Meiocardia hawaiana Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
  • Meiocardia moltkiana (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Meiocardia samarangiae Bernard, Cai & Morton, 1993
  • Meiocardia sanguineomaculata (Dunker, 1882)
  • Meiocardia vulgaris (Reeve, 1845)

Species formerly classified in this genus include:[1]

  • Glossocardia agassizii (Dall, 1886)

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Meiocardia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  2. Adams, Henry; Adams, Arthur (1858). The Genera of Recent Mollusca. London: John van Voorst. p. 461.
  3. Matsukuma, Akihiko; Habe, Tadashige (1995). "Systematic revision of living species of Meiocardia, Glossidae and Glossocardia, Trapezidae (Bivalvia)". In Bouchet, Philippe (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167. Paris. pp. 77–91.

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