Anadara is a genus of saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family Arcidae. It is also called Scapharca.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Arcida |
| Family: | Arcidae |
| Genus: | Anadara Gray, 1847 |
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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
editThe 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)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ WoRMS
- ^ Anadara similis World Register of Marine Species, 2012-07-12.
External links
edit- "Anadara". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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