Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Anomalodesmata > Superfamily Cuspidarioidea > Family Cuspidariidae

Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cuspidaria (Cardiomya)*	A. Adams, 1864	synonym
*Neaera (Cardiomya)*	A. Adams, 1864	synonym

Children

Cardiomya cadiziana M. Huber, 2010
Cardiomya costellata (Deshayes, 1835)
Cardiomya knudseni (J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981)
Cardiomya obliqua (de Boer, 1985)
Cardiomya striata (Jeffreys, 1876)
Cardiomya striolata (Locard, 1897)
Cardiomya unistriata J. A. Allen, 2011

Literature

basis of record	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137857

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Environment

marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.

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2025-01-03 by Maxim Vinarski

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