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Anadara (ark)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Taxonomy
Anadara was named by Gray (1847) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 1112]. It is extant. Its type is Arca antiquata. It is the type genus of Anadarinae.

It was reranked as Scapharca (Anadara) by Dall (1898); it was reranked as Arca (Anadara) by Loel and Corey (1932) and Mansfield (1932).

It was assigned to Scapharca by Dall (1898); to Arca by Loel and Corey (1932) and Mansfield (1932); to Arcoida by Sepkoski (2002); to Arcidae by Woodring (1938), Mukerjee (1939), Durham (1944), DuBar (1958), Faustman (1964), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Marasti (1973), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Lamprell and Healy (1998), Mikkelsen (2006); and to Anadarinae by Reinhart (1943), da Silva Forti (1969), Vokes (1980), Moore (1983), del Rio (1992), Perrilliat (1992), Coan et al. (2000), Tiwari (2001), Bouchet et al. (2010), Morales-Ortega et al. (2016).

Species
A. (Anadara), A. (Caloosarca) aequalitas, A. (Caloosarca) biangulata (syn. Arca gordita), A. (Caloosarca) crassicosta, A. (Caloosarca) hoerleae, A. (Caloosarca) mompicha, A. (Caloosarca) notoflorida, A. (Caloosarca) rustica, A. (Cunearca) berjadinensis, A. (Cunearca) bifrons (syn. Arca corculum, Arca cardiiformis, Arca cordata), A. (Cunearca) boggsi, A. (Cunearca) brasiliana, A. (Cunearca) buenavista, A. (Cunearca) cacica, A. (Cunearca) caimitaca, A. (Cunearca) chemnitzioides, A. (Cunearca) corcupidonis, A. (Cunearca) ferruginea, A. (Cunearca) hindsi, A. (Cunearca) hispaniolana, A. (Cunearca) inutilis, A. (Cunearca) lloydi, A. (Cunearca) melita, A. (Cunearca) pittieri, A. (Cunearca) rhombea, A. (Cunearca) riocanensis, A. (Cunearca) telemba, A. (Cunearca) zorritensis (syn. A. (Cunearca) vueltana), A. (Cunearca) zorritoensis, A. (Diluvarca) pasada, A. (Grandiarca) chiriquiensis (syn. Arca websteri, Arca (Anadara) nelsoni, Arca (Scapharca) imporcata, Arca (Scapharca) crescens, Arca (Anadara) toroensis, Arca obesiformis, Arca septifera), A. (Grandiarca) garitensis, A. (Grandiarca) patriarcha, A. (Grandiarca) patricia, A. (Grandiarca) usiacurii, A. (Larkinia) notabilis (syn. Arca deshayesii, Arca auriculata), A. (Larkinia) sellardsi, A. (Larkinia) transversa, A. (Lunarca) (syn. Argina), A. (Mabellarca), A. (Potiarca) saladillaensis, A. (Rasia), A. (Scapharca) aviculaeformis, A. (Scapharca) cepoides, A. (Scapharca) inaequivalvis, A. (Scapharca) labiosa, A. (Scapharca) spiekeri, A. (Sectiarca) floridana, A. (Sectiarca) henekeni (syn. Arca (Scapharca) sobrina), A. (Sectiarca) inaequilateralis, A. (Sectiarca) margaretae, A. (Sectiarca) marksi, A. (Sectiarca) riogurabonica, A. (Tegillarca), A. (Tosarca) campta, A. (Tosarca) columba, A. (Tosarca) tosaensis, A. (Tosarca) veatchi, A. aequatorialis (syn. Arca subelongata, Arca ovata), A. aequicostata, A. baughmani (syn. A. springeri), A. callicestosa, A. campsa, A. concinna (syn. Arca cumingiana), A. congesta, A. craticulata, A. crebricostata, A. cretacea, A. dasia, A. daviesi, A. fichteli (syn. Arca corbulodies), A. firmata, A. formosa, A. garoensis, A. gourae, A. guayubinica, A. halidonata, A. hermidermos, A. jacksoni, A. kroensis, A. macneili, A. magnoliana, A. molengraaffii, A. montereyana, A. mummi, A. nugax, A. nux, A. obesa, A. obliquidens, A. osmonti (syn. Arca impavida, Arca barkeriana), A. panensis, A. perlabiata (syn. Arca (Scapharca) labiata), A. preangerensis, A. prephina, A. protracta, A. quilonensis, A. reinharti, A. riogurabonica, A. suboblonga, A. trilineata (syn. Arca sulcicosta, Arca schizotoma), A. tuberculosa, A. uropigimelana, A. woodringi, Arca (Anadara) heterosculpta, Arca (Cunearca) cacica, Arca (Cunearca) cumanensis, Arca (Cunearca) esmeralda, Arca (Scapharca) aguadica, Arca (Scapharca) collazica, Arca (Scapharca) ecuadoriana, Arca (Scapharca) hopkinsi, Arca (Scapharca) sansebastiana, Arca (Scapharca) weeksi, Arca (Scapharca) wheeleri, Arca (Senilia) senilis, Arca (Tosarca) willardausteni, Barbatia (Diluvarca) agnastha, Barbatia (Diluvarca) dasia, Barbatia (Diluvarca) halidonata, Barbatia (Diluvarca) microtera, Barbatia (Diluvarca) opthanta, Barbatia (Diluvarca) perplura, Barbatia (Diluvarca) thomasensis, Barbatia (Diluvarca) wordeni, Cunearca lesueuri, Cunearca scalarina, Cunearca scalaris, Cunearca silverdalensis, Diluvarca (Cunearca) cardioides, Larkinia camuloensis, Larkinia grandis (syn. Arca quadrilatera), Larkinia larkinii, Larkinia multicostata, Larkinia santana, Potiarca bonplandiana, Scapharca (Cunearca) crandalli, Scapharca (Cunearca) cumanensis, Scapharca (Cunearca) hamelini (syn. Arca sespeensis), Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi, Scapharca (Cunearca) rhombea, Scapharca (Cunearca) rivulata (syn. Arca galei), Scapharca (Cunearca) santaclarana, Scapharca (Cunearca) vanderhoofi, Scapharca (Scapharca), Scapharca axelolssoni, Scapharca broughtoni (syn. Arca inflata), Scapharca chemnitzii, Scapharca cornea, Scapharca crashleyi, Scapharca crassissima, Scapharca eusphaera, Scapharca inaequivalvis, Scapharca meroensis, Scapharca pertenuicosta, Scapharca pinguescens, Scapharca rustica, Scapharca satowi, Scapharca sedanensis, Scapharca terhaari, Scapharca tjilanangensis, Scapharca vanwinkleae, Scapharca zorritosensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
A. abdita, A. actinophora, A. actinophora, A. aequalis, A. aequlitas, A. agnastha, A. alargada, A. amicula, A. amicula, A. andoi, A. aquitanica, A. arata, A. australis, A. balboae, A. balboai, A. bonneti, A. burnesi, A. burnesi, A. caboblanquensis, A. cardiiformis, A. castellata, A. castellata, A. catasarca, A. chavezi, A. chavezi, A. chichibuensis, A. chilensis, A. chiriquensis, A. chiriquensis, A. chiriquiensis, A. cistula, A. clathrata, A. cornea, A. craticulata, A. cumanensis, A. cumanensis, A. daitokudoensis, A. dameyi, A. dariensis, A. dariensis, A. darwini, A. delandensis, A. dilovii, A. diluvi, A. diluvii, A. dolaticostata, A. egleri, A. egleri, A. ermanensis, A. eumeces, A. fichteli, A. fichtelii, A. filicata, A. filicata, A. fitcheli, A. fontinalis, A. globulosa, A. guajiraensis, A. guajiraensis, A. guajirensis, A. guembeli, A. gunteri, A. haidonata, A. halidonata, A. halidonta, A. hopkinsi, A. hypomela, A. hypomela, A. improcera, A. improcera, A. inflata, A. interclathrata, A. kakehataensis, A. kogachiensis, A. korfiensis, A. kroensis, A. larkini, A. latidentata, A. lienosa, A. lineolata, A. luzonica, A. makiyamai, A. makiyamai, A. mareana, A. megerata, A. megerata, A. microtera, A. microtera, A. mompiche, A. multiformis, A. natalensis, A. ninohensis, A. ninohensis, A. oceanica, A. ogawai, A. ommaensis, A. opthanta, A. pangkaensis, A. pectinata, A. pectinata, A. peethensis, A. pennelli, A. perplana, A. perplura, A. petersburgensis, A. philippiana, A. placata, A. pseudoantiquata, A. rectangularis, A. rubisiniana, A. sanctidavidis, A. scapha, A. sculptilis, A. sedanensis, A. setoensis, A. setoensis, A. strebla, A. strebla, A. subcrenata, A. submultiformis, A. subrostrata, A. suzukii, A. taiwanica, A. tarponensis, A. tazawensis, A. tectumcolumbae, A. tectumcolumbae, A. thalia, A. theobaldi, A. topangensis, A. topangensis, A. transversa, A. trapezia, A. tricenicosta, A. trilineata, A. tsudai, A. turonica, A. turoniensis, A. vaughani, A. veatchi, A. veatchi, A. veatchi, A. verbeeki, A. verbeeki, A. waltonia, A. waringi, A. watanabei, A. watanabei, A. wendti, A. wordeni, Arca aresta, Arca fennemai, Arca girondica, Arca gunteri, Arca idonea, Arca idonea, Arca improcera, Arca junghuhni, Arca metastrebla, Arca montensis, Arca propearesta, Arca scapha, Arca subtijidamarensis, Arca toroensis, Arca toroensis, Arca uropygmelana
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by A. Hendy on 2014-05-19

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Senilia Gray
1844Arca (Tosarca) Reeve p. 33
1847Anadara Gray
1847Cara Gray
1847Scapharca Gray
1898Arca (Scapharca) Dall
1898Cunearca Dall
1898Scapharca (Anadara) Dall p. 657
1904Arca (Scapharca) Glenn p. 385
1917Scapharca (Cunearca) Maury p. 343
1925Barbatia (Diluvarca) Woodring p. 40
1929Imparilarca Iredale
1932Arca (Anadara) Loel and Corey
1932Arca (Anadara) Mansfield p. 50
1932Arca (Diluvarca) Olsson p. 67
1935Larkinia Reinhart
1938Anadara (Scapharca) Schenck and Reinhart pp. 58-62
1938Anadara Woodring p. 29
1939Potiarca Iredale
1939Anadara Mukerjee p. 26
1941Arca (Cunearca) Pilsbry and Olsson p. 9
1941Arca (Larkinia) Pilsbry and Olsson p. 9
1941Arca (Scapharca) Pilsbry and Olsson p. 9
1943Anadara Reinhart p. 39
1943Anadara (Larkinia) Reinhart p. 63
1943Anadara (Cunearca) Reinhart p. 66
1943Anadara (Scapharca) Reinhart p. 70
1944Anadara Durham p. 136
1946Barbatia (Scapharca) Harris and Palmer p. 44
1947Diluvarca (Cunearca) Gardner p. 34
1958Anadara DuBar p. 156
1958Anadara (Cunearca) DuBar p. 157
1960Arca (Senilia) Barrios p. 229
1961Caloosarca Olsson
1961Esmerarca Olsson
1961Grandiarca Olsson
1961Sectiarca Olsson
1964Anadara Faustman p. 114
1965Anadara (Cunearca) Jung p. 423
1965Anadara (Scapharca) Jung p. 427
1965Anadara (Tosarca) Noda
1969Anadara (Caloosarca) Vokes p. 8
1969Arca (Scapharca) da Silva Forti p. 65
1969Anadara da Silva Forti p. 66
1969Anadara (Larkinia) da Silva Forti p. 67
1969Anadara (Cunearca) da Silva Forti p. 68
1972Anadara Hertlein and Grant p. 154
1973Anadara Marasti p. 99
1973Anadara (Tosarca) Woodring p. 506
1980Anadara Vokes p. 14
1980Cunearca Vokes p. 14
1980Imparilarca Vokes p. 14
1980Larkinia Vokes p. 14
1980Potiarca Vokes p. 15
1980Scapharca Vokes p. 15
1980Senilia Vokes p. 15
1980Tosarca Vokes p. 222
1982Scapharca Dockery p. 32
1983Anadara Moore p. A36
1983Grandiarca Moore p. A42
1983Larkinia Moore p. A42
1983Scapharca Moore pp. A43 - A44
1983Scapharca (Cunearca) Moore p. A44 figs. Plate 9, figure 7, 15
1987Anadara Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1992Anadara Perrilliat p. 5
1992Anadara (Cunearca) Perrilliat p. 6
1992Anadara (Tosarca) Perrilliat p. 6
1992Cunearca Ward p. 53
1992Anadara del Rio p. 14
1996Imparilarca Jensen p. 37
1998Anadara Lamprell and Healy p. 52
1999Scapharca Wienrich p. 211
2000Anadara Coan et al. pp. 132, 133
2000Anadara (Larkinia) Coan et al. p. 133
2001Anadara Tiwari p. 153
2001Anadara (Caloosarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Cunearca) Todd
2001Anadara (Diluvarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Esmerarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Grandiarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Larkinia) Todd
2001Anadara (Potiarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Sectiarca) Todd
2001Anadara (Tosarca) Todd
2002Anadara Sepkoski
2002Cunearca Sepkoski
2002Grandiarca Sepkoski
2002Larkinia Sepkoski
2002Scapharca Sepkoski
2002Sectiarca Sepkoski
2002Senilia Sepkoski
2002Tosarca Sepkoski
2006Anadara Mikkelsen
2006Scapharca Mikkelsen
2006Anadara (Cunearca) Rosenberg et al.
2010Anadara Bouchet et al.
2010Cunearca Bouchet et al.
2010Senilia Bouchet et al.
2016Anadara Morales-Ortega et al. p. 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
orderArcida(Stoliczka 1871)
superfamilyArcoidea(Lamarck 1809)
familyArcidaeLamarck 1809
subfamilyAnadarinaeReinhart 1935
genusAnadaraGray 1847

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Anadara Gray 1847 [ark]
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Subg. Anadara (Lunarca) Gray 1857
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Lunarca arthurpennelli Maury 1917
Lunarca billingsiana Maury 1912
Lunarca bolivarensis Clark and Durham 1946
Lunarca brevifrons Sowerby I 1833
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Lunarca brevifrons bucaruana Sheldon and Maury in Maury 1922
Lunarca brightonensis Maury 1912
Lunarca colombiana Clark and Durham 1946
Lunarca costata Gray 1857
Lunarca melanoderma Pilsbry and Lowe 1932
Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789
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Invalid names: Arca campechiensis Gmelin 1791 [synonym], Arca pexata Say 1822 [synonym]
Lunarca pennelli Gabb 1873
Lunarca proletaria Pilsbry and Johnson 1917
Lunarca vespertina Mörch 1861
Invalid names: Argina Gray [synonym]
Subg. Anadara (Mabellarca) Iredale 1939
Subg. †Anadara (Rasia) Gray 1857
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Invalid names: Anadara istmica Perrilliat 1960 [synonym]
Anadara (Rasia) athroa Woodring 1973
Anadara (Rasia) bravardi de Rio 1987
Anadara (Rasia) carmenensis Clark and Durham 1946
Anadara (Rasia) cornellana Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) dariensis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Invalid names: Anadara (Sectiarca) losquemadica Maury 1917 [synonym], Arca gatunensis Toula 1911 [synonym]
Anadara (Rasia) democraciana Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) honensis Olsson 1922
Anadara (Rasia) lita Woodring 1973
Anadara (Rasia) mirandana Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) tamarana Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) tirantensis Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) wiedenmayeri Hodson et al. 1927
Anadara (Rasia) zuliana Hodson et al. 1927
Rasia arata Say 1824
Subg. Anadara (Tegillarca) Iredale 1939
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Invalid names: Anadara oblonga Dunker 1866 [synonym], Arca cuneata Reeve 1844 [synonym]
Anadara aequatorialis d'Orbigny 1846
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Invalid names: Arca ovata Reeve 1844 [replaced], Arca subelongata Nyst 1848 [synonym]
Anadara aequicostata Conrad 1845
Anadara baughmani Hertlein 1951
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Invalid names: Anadara springeri Rehder and Abbott 1951 [synonym]
Anadara callicestosa Dall 1898
Anadara campsa Dall 1898
Anadara concinna Sowerby 1833
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Invalid names: Arca cumingiana Nyst 1848 [synonym]
Anadara congesta Conrad 1856
Anadara cretacea Conrad 1869
Anadara dasia Woodring 1925
Anadara daviesi Mukerjee 1939
Anadara fichteli Deshayes 1850
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Invalid names: Arca corbulodies Trentanove 1901 [synonym]
Anadara firmata Mayer 1868
Anadara formosa Sowerby 1833
Anadara garoensis Mukerjee 1939
Anadara gourae Dey 1961
Anadara guayubinica Maury 1917
Anadara halidonata Dall 1898
Anadara hermidermos Philippi 1845
Anadara jacksoni Cooper 2014
Anadara kroensis Boettger 1883
Anadara macneili Mansfield 1938
Anadara magnoliana Gardner 1943
Anadara molengraaffii Martin 1914
Anadara montereyana Osmont 1904
Anadara mummi Mansfield 1938
Anadara nugax Iredale 1939
Anadara nux Sowerby I 1833
Anadara obesa Sowerby 1833
Anadara obliquidens Boettger 1883
Anadara osmonti Dall 1909
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Invalid names: Arca barkeriana Clark 1918 [synonym], Arca impavida Wiedey 1928 [synonym]
Anadara panensis Ihering 1914
Anadara perlabiata Grant, IV and Gale 1931
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Invalid names: Arca (Scapharca) labiata Sowerby 1833 [replaced]
Anadara preangerensis Martin 1910
Anadara prephina Woodring 1925
Anadara protracta Rogers and Rogers 1837
Anadara quilonensis Dey 1961
Anadara riogurabonica Maury 1917
Anadara suboblonga Boettger 1883
Anadara trilineata Conrad 1856
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Anadara (Anadara) trilineata calcarea Grant, IV and Gale 1931
Invalid names: Arca schizotoma Dall 1898 [synonym], Arca sulcicosta Gabb 1866 [synonym]
Anadara tuberculosa Sowerby I 1833
Anadara uropigimelana Bory 1824
Anadara woodringi Perrilliat 1960
Invalid names: Caloosarca Olsson 1961 [synonym], Cara Gray 1847 [synonym], Cunearca Dall 1898 [synonym], Esmerarca Olsson 1961 [synonym], Grandiarca Olsson 1961 [synonym], Larkinia Reinhart 1935 [synonym], Potiarca Iredale 1939 [synonym], Scapharca Gray 1847 [synonym], Sectiarca Olsson 1961 [synonym], Tosarca Noda 1965 [synonym]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
height56.774.509.007.301.76

Composition: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Adult height: 10 to < 100f
Thickness: intermediatef
Folds: minorf
Ribbing: majorf
Spines: nonef
Internal reinforcement: nonef
Ontogeny: accretionf
Environment: lagoonal, coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanic, brackish, freshwaterf
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Attached: yesf
Life habit: semi-infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedf
Comments: LIFE HISTORY: Mostly SI, MA, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).g
Created: 2009-09-09 13:20:13
Modified: 2009-09-09 15:20:13
Source: g = genus, f = family
References: Sanchez Roig 1926, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Valanginian to the top of the Holocene or 137.05000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 132.6 Ma

Collections (1673 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6France Arca ferruginea (2223)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Austria (Salzburg) Arca heterosculpta (84335)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03Mexico Anadara sp. (159091)
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71Indonesia Anadara molengraaffii (70082 78745 79524)
Middle Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene48.07 - 27.3Haiti Scapharca chiriquiensi, Scapharca quayubinica, Scapharca cercadica (173456)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71United Kingdom (England) Anadara globulosa (42636)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71USA (Texas) Anadara vaughani (99035)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71USA (Mississippi) Anadara vaughani (99674 99736 205508)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71Colombia (Bolivar) Anadara carmenensis (3312)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71USA (Louisiana) Anadara vaughani (98940)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Venezuela Anadara sp. (134867)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Colombia (Sucre) Lunarca bolivarensis (42825)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Colombia (Bolivar) Anadara olssoni (3315)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Panama Anadara carmenensis (42531) Anadara sp. (42537)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9USA (Oregon) Anadara sp. (39002)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Romania Anadara globulosa (102026)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Germany (Bavaria) Anadara sp. (10703)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Puerto Rico Arca collazica (80191 80192) Arca collazica, Arca sansebastiana (80190)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3USA (Florida) Anadara mummi, Anadara macneili (41197)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Australia (Victoria) Anadara interclathrata (71236)