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  8. ›Carditoidea
False-cockles
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False-cockles

Carditidae

Carditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditoida, which was long included in the Veneroida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea. Delimitation of this family versus the closely related Condylocardiidae is somewhat problematic.

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Carditamerinae

subfamilyCarditamerinae

Venericardiinae

subfamilyVenericardiinae

Carditinae

subfamilyCarditinae

Scalaricarditinae

subfamilyScalaricarditinae

Miodomeridinae

subfamilyMiodomeridinae

Pouchclams

subfamilyThecaliinae

Cuninae

subfamilyCuninae

Carditella

genusCarditella

Hamacuna

genusHamacuna

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51983.