Meiocardia

Meiocardia is a genus of bivalve.[3]

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

See text.

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. Vol. 167. Paris. pp. 77–91.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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