Acar (bivalve)

Acar is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.[1]

Acar
View of a left valve of an Acar species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Arcida
Family:	Arcidae
Genus:	Acar Gray, 1857

Some authors consider it to be a subgenus of Barbatia.[2]

Species

Species in this genus include:

• Acar abdita P. G. Oliver & Chesney, 1994[1]
• Acar agulhasensis (Thiele, 1931)[1]
• Acar bailyi Bartsch, 1931[1]
• Acar botanica (Hedley, 1917)[1]
• Acar carditaeformis (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)[1]
• Acar clathrata (Defrance, 1816)[1]
• Acar congenita (E. A. Smith, 1885)[1]
• Acar decorata (Hayami & Kase, 1993)[1]
• Acar dubia (Baird, 1873)[1]
• Acar gradata (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829),[1] from California, US[2]
• Acar lepidoformis Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012[1]
• Acar marsupialis P. G. Oliver & Holmes, 2004[1]
• Acar naturezae Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012[1]
• Acar oliveirae Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012[1]
• Acar olivercoseli M. Huber, 2010[1]
• Acar petasion (Kilburn, 1983)[1]
• Acar plicata (Dillwyn, 1817)[1]
• Acar pusilla (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)[1]
• Acar requiescens (Melvill & Standen, 1907)[1]
• Acar rostae (Berry, 1954)[1]
• Acar sandersonae Powell, 1933[1]
• Acar sociella (Brookes, 1926)[1]
• Acar squamosa (Lamarck, 1819)[1]
• Acar transmar Simone, 2009,[1] from Brazil[2]

Although Simone lists another species Acar domingensis,[2] it has been reclassified as Barbatia.[1]

References

1. "Acar Gray, 1857". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
2. Simone, Luiz Ricardo L. (March 2009), "A new species of Acar (Bivalvia, Arcidae) from São Pedro e São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil" (PDF), Novapex, 10 (1): 9–16