Anadara (Lunarca) Gray 1857 (ark)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Alternative spelling: Lunarca

Parent taxon: Anadara according to B. P. Tiwari 2001

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, da Silva Forti 1969, Mikkelsen 2006, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Anadara (Anadara), Anadara (Caloosarca), Anadara (Cunearca), Anadara (Diluvarca), Anadara (Esmerarca), Anadara (Grandiarca), Anadara (Larkinia), 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 trapezia, Anadara trilineata, Anadara tuberculosa, Anadara uropigimelana, Anadara woodringi, Arca (Anadara) heterosculpta, Arca (Anadara) sespeensis

Subtaxa: Anadara (Lunarca) kachharai Lunarca arthurpennelli Lunarca billingsiana Lunarca bolivarensis Lunarca brevifrons Lunarca brightonensis Lunarca colombiana Lunarca costata Lunarca ovalis Lunarca pennelli Lunarca proletaria

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Type: Lunarca costata

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (5 collections), Cuba (1), Ecuador (2), Panama (1), United States (54: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), United States (6: North Carolina), Venezuela (8)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Ecuador (2), India (4), Panama (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Eocene of Colombia (1)

Total: 118 collections including 123 occurrences

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