Venericardia

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 <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
• †Venericardia iheringi <small>(Boehm, 1903)</small>
• Venericardia planicosta

References

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