WoRMS taxon details
Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864
137857 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137857)
accepted
Genus
Neaera gouldiana Hinds, 1843 accepted as Cardiomya gouldiana (Hinds, 1843) (type by monotypy)
Cardiomya (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Cardiomya (Kurodamya) Okutani & Sakurai, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cuspidaria (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Kurodamya Okutani & Sakurai, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Neaera (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Neara (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Cardiomya abyssicola A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
- Species Cardiomya alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1894)
- Species Cardiomya alternata (A. d'Orbigny, 1853)
- Species Cardiomya alveata (Hedley, 1907)
- Species Cardiomya andamanica Preston, 1916
- Species Cardiomya angusticauda Scarlato, 1972
- Species Cardiomya balboae Dall, 1916
- Species Cardiomya behringensis (Leche, 1883)
- Species Cardiomya bruuni Dell, 1956
- Species Cardiomya cadiziana M. Huber, 2010
- Species Cardiomya californica Dall, 1886
- Species Cardiomya casta (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya chuni (Jaeckel & Thiele, 1931)
- Species Cardiomya cleryana (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
- Species Cardiomya concepcionensis Zettler, 2025
- Species Cardiomya concinna (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya costata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Species Cardiomya costellata (Deshayes, 1835)
- Species Cardiomya didyma (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya fallax (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Species Cardiomya filatovae Scarlato, 1972
- Species Cardiomya forticostata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)
- Species Cardiomya fortisculpta (Kuroda, 1948)
- Species Cardiomya fragilissima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Species Cardiomya fujitai (Kuroda, 1948)
- Species Cardiomya gemma A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
- Species Cardiomya gilchristi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)
- Species Cardiomya gouldiana (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya greenii E. A. Smith, 1889
- Species Cardiomya iturupica Scarlato, 1972
- Species Cardiomya kashimana Okutani & Sakurai, 1964
- Species Cardiomya knudseni (J. A. Allen & R. E. Morgan, 1981)
- Species Cardiomya lanieri (A. M. Strong & Hertlein, 1937)
- Species Cardiomya levifrons (Cotton, 1930)
- Species Cardiomya minerva T. C. Lima, C. D. Oliveira & Absalão, 2020
- Species Cardiomya obliqua (de Boer, 1985)
- Species Cardiomya ochotensis Scarlato, 1972
- Species Cardiomya orientalis (Jaeckel & Thiele, 1931)
- Species Cardiomya ornatissima (A. d'Orbigny, 1853)
- Species Cardiomya pectinata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
- Species Cardiomya perrostrata (Dall, 1881)
- Species Cardiomya pinna (Verco, 1908)
- Species Cardiomya planetica (Dall, 1908)
- Species Cardiomya rectimarginata Dell, 1962
- Species Cardiomya reticulata (Kuroda, 1948)
- Species Cardiomya saba Knudsen, 1982
- Species Cardiomya semicostata (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Cardiomya sibogai (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Cardiomya singaporensis (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya sinica F.-S. Xu, 1980
- Species Cardiomya striata (Jeffreys, 1876)
- Species Cardiomya surinamensis van Regteren Altena, 1971
- Species Cardiomya taiwanica Okutani & Lan, 1999
- Species Cardiomya tosaensis (Kuroda, 1948)
- Species Cardiomya unistriata J. A. Allen, 2011
- Species Cardiomya striolata (Locard, 1897) (uncertain)
- Subgenus Cardiomya (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864 accepted as Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Cardiomya (Kurodamya) Okutani & Sakurai, 1964 accepted as Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya (Kurodamya) semicostata (Prashad, 1932) accepted as Cardiomya semicostata (Prashad, 1932) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cardiomya (Kurodamya) taiwanica Okutani & Lan, 1999 accepted as Cardiomya taiwanica Okutani & Lan, 1999 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Cardiomya (Labromysa) F. R. Bernard, 1989 accepted as Bathyneaera Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1983 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya (Labromysa) disa F. R. Bernard, 1989 accepted as Bathyneaera disa (F. R. Bernard, 1989) (basionym)
- Species Cardiomya beringensis [sic] accepted as Cardiomya behringensis (Leche, 1883) (misspelling)
- Species Cardiomya corpulenta (Dall, 1881) accepted as Cardiomya costellata (Deshayes, 1835)
- Species Cardiomya curta (Jeffreys, 1876) accepted as Cardiomya cadiziana M. Huber, 2010 (preoccupied name)
- Species Cardiomya ecuadoriana (Olsson, 1961) accepted as Cardiomya didyma (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Cardiomya glypta K. J. Bush, 1898 accepted as Cardiomya ornatissima (A. d'Orbigny, 1853) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya isolirata F. R. Bernard, 1969 accepted as Cardiomya pectinata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya lindbergi Scarlato, 1972 accepted as Cardiomya gouldiana (Hinds, 1843) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya multicostata (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1880) accepted as Cardiomya striata (Jeffreys, 1876)
- Species Cardiomya nipponica (Okutani, 1962) accepted as Cardiomya reticulata (Kuroda, 1948)
- Species Cardiomya oldroydi (Dall, 1924) accepted as Cardiomya pectinata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya pseustes (Dall, 1908) accepted as Cardiomya planetica (Dall, 1908) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cardiomya robiginosa Okutani & Sakurai, 1964 accepted as Cardiomya behringensis (Leche, 1883)
- Species Cardiomya sagamiana Okutani & Sakurai, 1964 accepted as Cardiomya tosaensis (Kuroda, 1948)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
(of Neaera (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864) Adams, A. (1864). On the species of <i>Nearea</i> found in the seas of Japan. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13: 206-209., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482490
page(s): 208. [details]
page(s): 208. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cardiomya A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137857 on 2026-06-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882) Jeffreys, J. G. (1882). On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions 1868-70. (Part IV). <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1881 : 922-952, pl. 70-71., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30760155
page(s): 943; note: as subgenus of Neaera Gray, 1833 [details]
original description (of Neaera (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864) Adams, A. (1864). On the species of <i>Nearea</i> found in the seas of Japan. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13: 206-209., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482490
page(s): 208. [details]
original description (of Kurodamya Okutani & Sakurai, 1964) OKUTANI, T. & K. SAKURAI, 1964 Genus Cardiomya (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata) from Japanese waters. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 7 (1) : 17-32, pl. 1. [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 346 [details]
page(s): 943; note: as subgenus of Neaera Gray, 1833 [details]
original description (of Neaera (Cardiomya) A. Adams, 1864) Adams, A. (1864). On the species of <i>Nearea</i> found in the seas of Japan. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 13: 206-209., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26482490
page(s): 208. [details]
original description (of Kurodamya Okutani & Sakurai, 1964) OKUTANI, T. & K. SAKURAI, 1964 Genus Cardiomya (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata) from Japanese waters. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 7 (1) : 17-32, pl. 1. [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 346 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]
additional source Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR.</em> 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 422 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR.</em> 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 422 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cardiomya)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spathophora) (from synonym Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cardiomya sp. Apical view of the shell)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cardiomya sp. hinge view of the left valve)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spathophora) (from synonym Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Spathophora Jeffreys, 1882)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cardiomya sp. Apical view of the shell)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cardiomya sp. hinge view of the left valve)
To ITIS
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