Arcidae
Anadara transversa (Say, 1822)
Anadara transversa (Say, 1822)
Anadara transversa (the Transverse ark clam) is an Arcidae clam native to the North American Atlantic, invasive in the eastern Mediterranean.
Anadara notabilis (Röding, 1798)
Anadara notabilis (Röding, 1798)
Anadara notabilis, the Eared ark clam, is an Arcidae family clam found in Caribbean waters from Florida to Bermuda and Brazil.
Anadara brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819)
Anadara brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819)
Anadara brasiliana, the Incongruous Ark Clam, is a saltwater ark clam found along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Brazil.
Anadara chemnitzii (R.A.Philippi, 1851)
Anadara chemnitzii (R.A.Philippi, 1851)
Anadara chemnitzii, or Chemnitz's ark clam, is a Caribbean saltwater ark clam found from Texas to Brazil.
Anadara tuberculosa (G.B.Sowerby I, 1833)
Anadara tuberculosa (G.B.Sowerby I, 1833)
Anadara tuberculosa, the mangrove cockle, is an Arcidae bivalve found from Mexico to Peru that lives on mangrove roots in the Americas.
Anadara trapezia (Deshayes, 1839)
Anadara trapezia (Deshayes, 1839)
Anadara trapezia is an Australian estuarine filter-feeding bivalve used to study metal levels as a bioindicator.
Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906)
Anadara kagoshimensis is a salinity- and low-oxygen-tolerant edible ark clam found in coastal soft sediments around Japan and South Korea.
Anadara secticostata (Reeve, 1844)
Anadara secticostata (Reeve, 1844)
Anadara secticostata, the cut-ribbed ark clam, is a white North American Atlantic saltwater ark clam with 30-38 curved radial ribs.
Barbatia domingensis (Lamarck, 1819)
Barbatia domingensis (Lamarck, 1819)
Barbatia domingensis is a marine ark clam whose taxonomic classification was revised by Huber in 2015.
Barbatia candida (Helbling, 1779)
Barbatia candida (Helbling, 1779)
The White-bearded ark clam is an Arcidae clam found off the southeastern US Atlantic coast, with an accepted alternative classification as Cucullaerca candida.
Barbatia amygdalumtostum (Röding, 1798)
Barbatia amygdalumtostum (Röding, 1798)
Barbatia amygdalumtostum, the almond ark, is a bearded ark clam species found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
Barbatia barbata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Barbatia barbata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Barbatia barbata is a bearded ark clam found in the Mediterranean on rocky and coral-bearing seabeds.
Barbatia obliquata (W.Wood, 1828)
Barbatia obliquata (W.Wood, 1828)
Barbatia obliquata, the oblique ark shell, is a bivalve in the Arcidae family found from South Africa to Japan.
Arca noae Linnaeus, 1758
Arca noae Linnaeus, 1758
Arca noae Linnaeus, 1758 is a Mediterranean bivalve harvested commercially in the Adriatic Sea.
Arca zebra Swainson, 1833
Arca zebra Swainson, 1833
Arca zebra is a striped bivalve mollusc found in the North Atlantic, with a distinct protandric reproductive cycle.
Lunarca ovalis (Bruguière, 1789)
Lunarca ovalis (Bruguière, 1789)
Lunarca ovalis, the blood ark clam, is a hemoglobin-containing Atlantic North American clam species in the Arcidae family.
Tegillarca granosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tegillarca granosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tegillarca granosa, the blood cockle, is an edible Indo-Pacific ark clam widely consumed across East and Southeast Asia.
Larkinia grandis (Broderip & G.B.Sowerby I, 1829)
Larkinia grandis (Broderip & G.B.Sowerby I, 1829)
Larkinia grandis is a species with distinct shell features found in locations across the North Pacific Ocean.
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