Alternative spellings: Arca (Anadara), Scapharca (Anadara)
Synonym: Cara Gray 1847
Parent taxon: Anadarinae according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, da Silva Forti 1969, del Rio 1992, DuBar 1958, Durham 1944, Faustman 1964, Gardner 1943, Glenn 1904, Hertlein and Grant 1972, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Loel and Corey 1932, Marasti 1973, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Morales-Ortega et al. 2016, Mukerjee 1939, Perrilliat 1992, Reinhart 1943, Sepkoski 2002, Tiwari 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1938
Sister taxa: Dallarca, Hataiarca, Indacar, Mabelllarca, Nemoarca, Philippinarca, Samacar, Scapharca, Scapharcopsis, Scaphula, Senilia, Tegilarca
Subtaxa: Anadara (Anadara) Anadara (Caloosarca) Anadara (Cunearca) Anadara (Diluvarca) Anadara (Esmerarca) Anadara (Grandiarca) Anadara (Larkinia) Anadara (Lunarca) Anadara (Mabellarca) Anadara (Potiarca) Anadara (Rasia) Anadara (Sectiarca) Anadara (Tegillarca) Anadara (Tosarca) Anadara aequatorialis Anadara aequicostata Anadara baughmani Anadara callicestosa Anadara campsa Anadara concinna Anadara congesta Anadara craticulata Anadara crebricostata Anadara cretacea Anadara dasia Anadara daviesi Anadara fichteli Anadara firmata Anadara formosa Anadara garoensis Anadara gourae Anadara guayubinica Anadara halidonata Anadara hermidermos Anadara jacksoni Anadara kroensis Anadara macneili Anadara magnoliana Anadara molengraaffii Anadara montereyana Anadara mummi Anadara nugax Anadara nux Anadara obesa Anadara obliquidens Anadara osmonti Anadara panensis Anadara perlabiata Anadara preangerensis Anadara prephina Anadara protracta Anadara quilonensis Anadara reinharti Anadara riogurabonica Anadara santana Anadara suboblonga Anadara trilineata Anadara tuberculosa Anadara uropigimelana Anadara woodringi Arca (Anadara) heterosculpta
Type: Arca antiquata
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (8), Cayman Islands (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (1), Djibouti (6), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (5), Egypt (2), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (6), Kenya (8), Mayotte (1), Mexico (5), Pakistan (2), Panama (4), Peru (4), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (3), South Africa (2), Sudan (1), Taiwan (14), Tanzania (2), Thailand (1), United States (208: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Vanuatu (3), Venezuela (3), Yemen (4)
• Blancan of United States (5: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (9), United States (13: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Colombia (18), Costa Rica (26), the Dominican Republic (13), Ecuador (8), India (1), Indonesia (20), Italy (4), Jamaica (6), Japan (14), Mexico (7), Pakistan (5), Panama (22), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (7), the Philippines (5), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (16), United States (88: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (16)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (11), Indonesia (2), United States (15: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (9), Argentina (6), Austria (2), Brazil (9), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), Colombia (142), Costa Rica (1), Cyprus (3), the Dominican Republic (20), Ecuador (17), France (3), Germany (1), Greece (2), Haiti (4), India (26), Indonesia (15), Iran (2), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Japan (37), Malta (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (2), Pakistan (3), Panama (187), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (19), the Philippines (2), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (12), United States (144: California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (34)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), Haiti (2), United States (7: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (65: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of Colombia (3), Germany (1), Indonesia (3), Mexico (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 1499 collections including 2230 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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