Anadara (Potiarca) Iredale 1939 (ark)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Alternative spelling: Potiarca

Parent taxon: Anadara according to J. A. Todd 2001

See also Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Anadara (Anadara), Anadara (Caloosarca), Anadara (Cunearca), Anadara (Diluvarca), Anadara (Esmerarca), Anadara (Grandiarca), Anadara (Larkinia), Anadara (Lunarca), Anadara (Mabellarca), 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 (Potiarca) saladillaensis Potiarca bonplandiana

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Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Venezuela (2 collections)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), Panama (1), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Panama (42), Venezuela (1)

Total: 61 collections each including a single occurrence

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