Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.[1]
| Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
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| Venericardia planicosta lerichei Lamarck, 1806 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Carditida |
| Superfamily: | Carditoidea |
| Family: | Carditidae |
| Genus: | Venericardia Lamarck, 1801 |
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Venericardita (lapsus) | |
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 edit
Species of Venericardia include:[verification needed]
References edit
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1