Trachycardium is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 56-57.
Fossil records This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 109.0 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world. Fossilworks
Species Species within this genus include:WoRMS Trachycardium belcheri (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Trachycardium consors (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856) — Florida prickly cockle Trachycardium isocardia — West Indian prickly cockle Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus, 1758) — yellow cockle Trachycardium procerum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Slender cockle Trachycardium rossi Marwick, 1944
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