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Carditidae
Sign in to saveCarditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida, which was long included in the Venerida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea.
Species
cardita clams
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderCarditida
- FamilyCarditidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,782
- With media
- 53
- Family
- Carditidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Carditoidea
- Image
- PZSL1852PlateMollusca17 clean.png
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- Commons category
- Carditidae
- taxon name
- Carditidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Carditidae
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Genera
- Subfamilies
- Chavan, 1969
- Perez, 2019
- References
Carditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida, which was long included in the Venerida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea.
Carditidae is a neglected and poorly classified family. It has six subfamilies recognised by the World Register of Marine Species, but the WoRMS has refrained from assigning contents to any family due to ambiguity and overlap in their definitions. Additionally, several genera have been or are still considered subgenera of other genera by some authors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carditidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.