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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 of Venericardia include:

  • Venericardia amabilis
  • Venericardia bimaculata
  • Venericardia ferruginea
  • Venericardia granulata
  • Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
  • Venericardia planicosta