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Half Heart Cockle

Lunulicardia hemicardium

Classification

Family
Cardiidae

Lunulicardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. Fossils species in this genus are present in the Pliocene deposits of Indonesia and the Miocene deposits of Russia. Species Species within the genus Lunulicardia include: Lunulicardia hemicardium (Linnaeus, 1758) Lunulicardia orlini Mienis, 2009 Lunulicardia retusa (Linnaeus, 1767) Lunulicardia tumorifera (Lamarck, 1819) Species brought into synonymy Lunulicardia auricula (Niebuhr in Forsskål, 1775): synonym of Lunulicardia retusa auricula (Niebuhr, 1775) Lunulicardia hemicardia…

Distribution

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