Anadara
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| Numerous live individuals of Anadara granosa on sale as seafood | |
| Fossil of Anadara diluvii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Bivalvia | 
| Order: | Arcida | 
| Family: | Arcidae | 
| Genus: | Gray, 1847  | 
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Anadara is a genus of saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family Arcidae. It is also called Scapharca.[1]
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
The 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
- ^ 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
- "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
 
