{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Hatnote|Some older sources use ''Cardita'' for the genus ''Cardites'', and vice versa. See below for details.}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cardita floridana shells.png | image_caption = ''Cardita floridana'' | taxon = Cardita | authority = Bruguière, 1792 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms= ''Arcinella'' <small>Oken, 1815 (''non'' Schumacher, 1817: non-binomial)</small><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2d06AQAAMAAJ&q=Arcinella%22+Oken%2C+1815&pg=RA2-PA164|title=A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca: With Descriptions of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles|last=Wood|first=Searles Valentine|date=1848|publisher=Palaeontographical Society|language=en|page=164}}</ref><br /> ''Cardites'' <small>Lamarck, 1801 (''non'' Link, 1807: ''nomen rejectum'')</small><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7360323|title=Cardites Lamarck, 1801|website=www.gbif.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref><br /> ''Herterocarda'' <small>(''lapsus'')</small><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmFamily/CARDITIDAEM12.htm|title=WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Family: CARDITIDAE|website=www.bagniliggia.it|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref><br /> ''Heterocarda'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4591059|title=Heterocarda Rafinesque, 1815|website=www.gbif.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref><br /> ''Jesonia'' <small>Gray, 1847 (''non'' Gray, 1840: ''nomen nudum'')</small><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137742|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cardita Bruguière, 1792|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref><br /> ''Mytilicadia'' <small>(''lapsus'')</small><ref name=":1" /><br /> ''Mytilicardes'' <small>(''lapsus'')</small><ref name=":1" /><br /> ''Mytilicardia'' <small>Herrmannsen, 1847</small><ref name=":0" /><br /> ''Mytilicardita'' <small>Anton, 1838</small><ref name=":0" /> }}
'''''Cardita''''' is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae.
== Naming == Especially in the early 19th century, this genus was often confused with the Carditid genus ''Cardites''. ''Cardita'' was originally established by J.G. Bruguière in 1792. However, in 1801 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck described it under the name ''Cardites''. J.H.F. Link subsequently described a new genus using the name ''Cardites'' in 1807. When this homonymy was realised, Megerle in 1811 re-described Link's genus ''Cardites'' as ''Cardita''.
Megerle's action resulted in four technically valid names which formed two mutual pairs of homonyms. The matter was ultimately resolved by starting with the oldest name – that of Bruguière – and applying it as intended, and suppressing Lamarck's name so that Link's junior homonym could be used for ''Cardites''.
In addition to the numerous junior synonyms, ''Byssomera'' – a junior synonym or subgenus of ''Carditamera'' – 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&q=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 == According to the WoRMS {{As of|2019|April|df=|lc=y}}:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137742|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cardita Bruguière, 1792|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref>
*''Cardita aviculina'' <small>Lamarck, 1819</small> *''Cardita caliculaeformis'' <small>Deshayes in Maillard, 1863</small> *''Cardita calyculata'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> *''Cardita crassicosta'' <small>Lamarck, 1819</small> *''Cardita distorta'' <small>Reeve, 1843</small> *''Cardita excisa'' <small>Philippi, 1847</small> *''Cardita ffinchi'' <small>(Melvill, 1898)</small> *''Cardita hawaiensis'' <small>(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)</small> *''Cardita kyushuensis'' <small>(Okutani, 1963)</small> *''Cardita leana'' <small>Dunker, 1860</small> *†''Cardita marwicki'' <small>Laws, 1944</small> *''Cardita muricata'' <small>G.B. Sowerby I, 1833</small> *†''Cardita northcrofti'' <small>Marwick, 1928</small> *''Cardita pica'' <small>Reeve, 1843</small> *''Cardita senegalensis'' <small>Reeve, 1843</small> *''Cardita variegata'' <small>Bruguière, 1792</small> *''Cardita vinsoni'' <small>Viader, 1951</small>
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Category:Carditidae Category:Bivalve genera