{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | taxon = Carditamera | authority = Conrad, 1838 | synonyms = ''Byssomera'' <small>Olsson, 1961</small><br /> ''Lazaria'' <small>Gray, 1854</small> | display_parents = 3 }}

thumb|''Carditamera gracilis'' shell '''''Carditamera''''' is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.<ref>Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. ''A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.'' New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 44.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415159|title = WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carditamera Conrad, 1838}}</ref>

It is the type genus of the subfamily Carditamerinae. '''''Byssomera''''' is a junior synonym or subgenus of ''Carditamera'' but has sometimes been written as a subgenus of ''Cardita'', due to its type species having been synonymised from ''Cardita'' (''Byssomera'') ''affinis'' to ''Carditamera'' (''Byssomera'') ''affinis''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDjwAAAAMAAJ&dq=Byssomera+cardita&pg=SL5-PA35|title=United States Geological Survey Professional Paper|date=1992|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=35|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mollusksoftropic00olss|title=Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific : particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru); Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda|last=Olsson|first=Axel A. (Axel Adolf)|date=1961|publisher=Ithaca, N.Y. : Paleontological Research Institution|others=MBLWHOI Library}}</ref>

==Species== * ''Carditamera affinis'' <small>(G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)</small> * ''Carditamera arata'' <small>(Conrad, 1838)</small> * ''Carditamera contigua'' <small>(Dautzenberg, 1910)</small> * ''Carditamera gracilis'' <small>(Shuttleworth, 1856)</small> – West Indian cardita * ''Carditamera plata'' <small>(Ihering, 1907)</small> * ''Carditamera radiata'' <small>(G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)</small>

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Category:Carditidae Category:Bivalve genera

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