Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.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.
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.
Species Carditamera affinis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833) Carditamera arata (Conrad, 1838) Carditamera contigua (Dautzenberg, 1910) Carditamera floridana (Conrad, 1838) Carditamera gracilis (Shuttleworth, 1856) – West Indian cardita Carditamera plata (Ihering, 1907) Carditamera radiata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833) Carditamera rolani (Cosel, 1995)
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