Anadara

Summary

Anadara is a genus of saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family Arcidae. It is also called Scapharca.[1]

Anadara
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
Numerous live individuals of Anadara granosa on sale as seafood
Fossil of Anadara diluvii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Arcida
Family: Arcidae
Genus: Anadara
Gray, 1847
Species

See text

Synonyms
List
  • Anadara (Anadara) Gray, 1847
  • Anadara (Cunearca) Dall, 1898
  • Anadara (Diluvarca) Woodring, 1925
  • Anadara (Scapharca) Gray, 1847
  • Anadara (Tosarca) H. Noda, 1965
  • Arca (Scapharca) Gray, 1847
  • Caloosarca Olsson, 1961
  • Cara Gray, 1857
  • Cunearca Dall, 1898
  • Diluvarca Woodring, 1925
  • Esmerarca Olsson, 1961
  • Imparilarca Iredale, 1929
  • Kikaiarca H. Noda, 1966 †
  • Potiarca Iredale, 1939
  • Rasia Gray, 1857
  • Scapharca Gray, 1847
  • Scapharca (Cunearca) Dall, 1898
  • Scapharcopsis F. Nordsieck, 1969
  • Sectiarca Olsson, 1961
  • Tosarca H. Noda, 1965 †

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range: 140.2 to 0.0 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.[2]

Species edit

The following species are recognised in the genus Anadara:[3]

  • Anadara adamsi Olsson, 1961
  • Anadara aequatorialis (d'Orbigny, 1846)
  • Anadara aethiopica (Thiele, 1931)
  • Anadara aliena (Iredale, 1939)
  • Anadara ambigua (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara amicula (Yokoyama, 1925) †
  • Anadara angicostata (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara antiquata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Anadara auriculata Lamarck
  • Anadara axelolssoni (Macsotay & Campos, 2001)
  • Anadara bataviensis (E. Lamy, 1907)
  • Anadara biangulata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Anadara bifrons (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
  • Anadara bonplandiana (A. d'Orbigny, 1843) †
  • Anadara brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819) - incongruous ark
  • Anadara broughtonii (Schrenck, 1867)
  • Anadara camerunensis P. G. Oliver & Cosel, 1993
  • Anadara cepoides (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara chemnitzii (Philippi, 1851) - Chemnitz ark, triangular ark
  • Anadara cistula (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara compacta (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara concinna (Sowerby, 1833)
  • Anadara consociata (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Anadara corbuloides (Monterosato, 1881)
  • Anadara cornea (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara corrugata (E. Lamy, 1907)
  • Anadara crassicostata (H. Adams, 1873)
  • Anadara craticulata (Nyst, 1848)
  • Anadara crebricostata (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara cymbaeformis (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara diluvii (Lamarck, 1805)
  • Anadara disparilis (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara eborensis P. G. Oliver & Cosel, 1993
  • Anadara ehrenbergi (Dunker, 1868)
  • Anadara emarginata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Anadara esmeralda (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941)
  • Anadara ferruginea (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Anadara fultoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1907)
  • Anadara geissei (Kobelt, 1891)
  • Anadara gibbosa (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara globosa (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara guangdongensis (F. R. Bernard, Cai & B. Morton, 1993)
  • Anadara gubernaculum (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara hankeyana (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara hemidesmos (Philippi, 1845)
  • Anadara hyphalopilema G. B. Campbell, 1962
  • Anadara inaequivalvis (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Anadara indica (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Anadara jousseaumei (E. Lamy, 1907)
  • Anadara jurata Iredale, 1939
  • Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
  • Anadara kikaizimana (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
  • Anadara labiosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Anadara lienosa (Say, 1832)
  • Anadara lirata (Philippi, 1887) †
  • Anadara livingstonei Iredale, 1927
  • Anadara mazatlanica (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1943)
  • Anadara muii Thach, 2016
  • Anadara natalensis (Krauss, 1848)
  • Anadara notabilis (Röding, 1798) - eared ark
  • Anadara nugax Iredale, 1939
  • Anadara nux (Sowerby, 1833)
  • Anadara obesa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Anadara occlusa (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara oceanica (Lesson, 1831)
  • Anadara passa Iredale, 1939
  • Anadara perlabiata (U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931)
  • Anadara pilula (Reeve, 1843)
  • Anadara pumila (Dunker, 1868)
  • Anadara pygmaea (H. Adams, 1872)
  • Anadara reinharti (H. N. Lowe, 1935)
  • Anadara rhomboidalis (Schumacher, 1817)
  • Anadara rotundicostata (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara rufescens (Reeve, 1844)
  • Anadara rugifera (Dunker, 1866)
  • Anadara sabinae (Morlet, 1889)
  • Anadara satowi (Dunker, 1882)
  • Anadara secernenda (E. Lamy, 1907) - Baughman ark, skewed ark
  • Anadara secticostata Reeve, 1844
  • Anadara senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Anadara setigericosta (Nyst, 1848)
  • Anadara similis - ark cockle or mangrove cockle[4]
  • Anadara speciosa (Philippi, 1849)
  • Anadara subglobosa (Kobelt, 1889)
  • Anadara subgranosa (Dunker, 1869)
  • Anadara subrubra (Dunker, 1866)
  • Anadara tosaensis H. Noda, 1965 †
  • Anadara transversa (Say, 1822) - transverse ark
  • Anadara trapezia (Deshayes, 1839)
  • Anadara tricenicosta (Nyst, 1848)
  • Anadara troscheli (Dunker, 1882)
  • Anadara tuberculosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) - pustulose ark
  • Anadara uropigimelana (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)
  • Anadara valentichscotti Thach, 2016
  • Anadara vellicata (Reeve, 1844)
 
Anadara valve interior showing taxodont dentition; Pliocene of Cyprus.
 
Fossils of Anadara satowi

References edit

  1. ^ Alla V. Silina (2006). "Spatial heterogeneity and long-term changes in bivalve Anadara broughtoni population: influence of river run-off and fishery". Ocean Science Journal. 41 (4): 211–219. doi:10.1007/BF03020624. S2CID 83505812.
  2. ^ Fossilworks
  3. ^ WoRMS
  4. ^ Anadara similis World Register of Marine Species, 2012-07-12.

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