Venericardia

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title: "Venericardia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["carditidae", "bivalve-genera", "taxa-named-by-jean-baptiste-lamarck"] description: "Genus of bivalves" topic_path: "general/carditidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venericardia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of bivalves ::

| fossil_range = Paleocene to Recent | taxon = Venericardia | authority = Lamarck, 1801 | image = Venericardia planicosta lerichei 01.jpg | image_caption = Venericardia planicosta lerichei Lamarck, 1806 | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = Venericardita (lapsus)

Venericardium Beyrich, 1837

Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.

It is the type genus of subfamily Venericardiinae. The closely related Purpurocardia was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.

Species

Species of Venericardia include:

• Venericardia amabilis
• Venericardia bimaculata
• Venericardia ferruginea
• Venericardia granulata
• †Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
• †Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
• Venericardia planicosta

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Venericardia Lamarck, 1801 †".

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