Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Acar abdita		Western Indian Ocean.		1994
Acar albidum		Northwest Pacific.		1966
Acar bailyi	Miniature ark	Eastern Pacific and Weste		1931
Acar clathrata		Eastern Pacific and Weste		1816
Acar cometa		Western Central Pacific		1844
Acar congenitum		Western Pacific.		1885
Acar congenitus		Western Central Pacific		1885
Acar domingensis	White miniature ark	Western Atlantic.	2.1 TL	1819
Acar dubia		Western Atlantic.		1873
Acar gradata		Western Atlantic.		1829
Acar marsupialis		Rodriguez only.	0.2 TL	2004
Acar petasion		Western Indian Ocean.		1983
Acar plicata		Indo-Pacific and the Medi	0.4 TL	1817
Acar requiescens		Western Indian Ocean		1907
Acar revelata		Western Indian Ocean	5.3 TL	1863
Acar sandersonae		Southwest Pacific		1933
Acar sociella		Southwest Pacific		1926
Acar transmar		Western Atlantic.	0.6 DL	2009
Anadara antiquata	Antique ark	Indo-Pacific	10.5 TL	1758
Anadara auriculata		Indo-Pacific
Anadara baughmani	Skewed ark	Western Atlantic.	2.2 DL	1951
Anadara brasiliana	Incongruous ark	Western Atlantic.		1819
Anadara broughtonii	Inflated ark	Northwest Pacific. Tropi		1867
Anadara chemnitzii	Triangular ark	Western Atlantic.		1851
Anadara compacta		Western Central Pacific		1844
Anadara concinna		Western Central Pacific		1833
Anadara consociata		Western Pacific.		1885
Anadara corbuloides		Mediterranean Sea		1878
Anadara craticulata		Western Pacific.		1848
Anadara crebricostata		Western Pacific.		1844
Anadara demiri	Arc shell	Mediterranean Sea		1981
Anadara diluvii	Diluvial ark	Eastern Central Atlantic		1805
Anadara disparilis		Northwest Pacific		1844
Anadara ehrenbergi		Western Indian Ocean.		1868
Anadara ferruginea	Rusty ark	Western Pacific.	8 TL	1844
Anadara floridana	Cut-ribbed ark	Western Atlantic.	9 DL	1869
Anadara grandis		Western Atlantic.		1829
Anadara gubernaculum		Western Atlantic.		1844
Anadara holoserica		Western Central Pacific		1844
Anadara hubbardi		Eastern Indian Ocean		1929
Anadara inaequivalvis	Inequivalve ark	Indo-West Pacific. Intro	9.5 TL	1789
Anadara jousseaumei		Western Pacific.		1907
Anadara kagoshimensis	Half-crenated ark	Northwest Pacific	6.2 SHL	1906
Anadara kikaizimana		Western Central Pacific		1934
Anadara mazatlanica	Mazatlan's ark	Eastern Central Pacific		1943
Anadara natalensis	Natal ark	Western Indian Ocean and		1848
Anadara nodifera	Nodular ark	Indo-West Pacific	6 TL	1860
Anadara notabilis	Eared ark	Western Atlantic. Tropic		1798
Anadara nux		Southeast Pacific		1833
Anadara oceanica		Western Central Pacific		1831
Anadara paucigranosa		Western Pacific		1889
Anadara polii		Mediterranean Sea.		1868
Anadara reinharti	Reinhart's ark	Eastern Pacific. Subtrop		1935
Anadara rotundicostata		Western Central Pacific		1843
Anadara rufescens		Western Indian Ocean		1844
Anadara sabinae		Western Pacific.		1889
Anadara satowi	Chinese blood clam	Western Pacific.		1882
Anadara secernenda		Western Pacific.		1907
Anadara secticostata		Western Central Pacific		1844
Anadara senegalensis	Senegal ark	Eastern Central Atlantic.		1791
Anadara similis	Brown ark	Eastern Pacific		1852
Anadara transversa	Transverse ark	Western Atlantic.		1822
Anadara trapezia		Indo-West Pacific.		1839
Anadara tuberculosa	Pustulose ark	Eastern Pacific		1833
Anadara uropigimelana		Indo-Pacific.		1824
Anadara vellicata	The pinched ark	Indo-West Pacific		1844
Arca angulata		Southeast Pacific		1832
Arca avellana	Hazelnut ark	Indo-Pacific	7 TL	1819
Arca boucardi	Kobelt's ark shell	Western Pacific.		1894
Arca boucardia		Western Central Pacific		1894
Arca imbricata	Mossy ark	Atlantic Ocean.		1789
Arca kauaia		Central Pacific		1938
Arca kobeltiana		Western Central Pacific		1904
Arca mutabilis	Changeable ark	Southeast Pacific and Nor		1833
Arca navicularis	Indo-Pacific ark	Indo-West Pacific	6 TL	1789
Arca noae	Noah's ark	Eastern Atlantic and Medi		1758
Arca patriarchalis		Eastern Atlantic and Medi		1798
Arca pectinoides		Western Atlantic.	3.2 DL	1832
Arca reticulata		Western Indian Ocean and		1791
Arca submerata		Western Pacific
Arca ventricosa	Ventricose ark	Indo-Pacific	9 TL	1819
Arca zebra	Turkey wing	Atlantic Ocean.	10 SHL	1833
Asperarca ectocomata		Atlantic Ocean.		1886
Asperarca magdalenae		Mediterranean Sea.		1998
Asperarca nodulosa		Mediterranean Sea.		1776
Asperarca secreta		Mediterranean Sea.		1998
Barbatia amygdalumtotsum		Indo-Pacific		1798
Barbatia barbata	Hairy ark	Mediterranean Sea.		1758
Barbatia cancellaria	Red-brown ark	Western Atlantic.	10 DL	1819
Barbatia candida	White-beard ark	Northwest Pacific, Wester		1779
Barbatia clathrata		Mediterranean Sea		1816
Barbatia cometa		Indo-West Pacific		1944
Barbatia decussata		Indo-Pacific	7 SHL	1833
Barbatia diphaeonotus		Mascarene only.	0.7 TL	2004
Barbatia divaricata		Western Central Pacific
Barbatia ectocomata		Western Atlantic.	4.6 DL	1886
Barbatia foliata	Decussate ark	Indo-Pacific	7.5 SHL	1775
Barbatia fusca	Almond ark	Indo-West Pacific	6 SHL	1789
Barbatia hanzawai		Northwest Pacific		1934
Barbatia lacerata		Indo-West Pacific	4.6 TL	1758
Barbatia lurida	Lurid ark	Eastern Pacific		1833
Barbatia molokaia		Eastern Central Pacific		1938
Barbatia munda		Northwest Pacific		1903
Barbatia novaezelandiae	Ark shell	Southwest Pacific		1915
Barbatia obliquata	Oblique ark shell	Northwest Pacific and Wes		1828
Barbatia parva		Indo-Pacific.	1.6 TL	1833
Barbatia pyrrhotus		Mascarene only.	0.5 TL	2004
Barbatia reeveana	Low-rib ark	Eastern Pacific and Weste		1846
Barbatia scabra		Mediterranean Sea		1795
Barbatia setigera		Indo-Pacific.		1844
Barbatia signata		Northwest Pacific		1868
Barbatia stearnsi	Small ark shell	Northwest Pacific.		1895
Barbatia tamikoae		Northwest Pacific		1969
Barbatia tenera	Delicate ark	Western Atlantic.		1845
Barbatia uwaensis		Northwest Pacific		1928
Barbatia ventricosa		Western Central Pacific		1819
Barbatia virescens	Blood clam	Indo-West Pacific.		1844
Bathyarca anaclima		Indo-West Pacific.		1906
Bathyarca anomala	Anomalous bathyark	Western Atlantic.		1898
Bathyarca corpulenta		Pacific Ocean, Atlantic O		1885
Bathyarca cybaea		Southwest Pacific		1906
Bathyarca frielei	Boreal bathyark	Atlantic Ocean, Mediterra	0.6 DL	1877
Bathyarca glacialis	Glacial bathyark	Atlantic Ocean, Arctic an	1.9 DL	1824
Bathyarca glomerula	Little-ball bathyark	Western Atlantic.	0.8 DL	1881
Bathyarca grenophia		Mediterranean Sea		1926
Bathyarca inaequalis		Western Atlantic.		1927
Bathyarca inaequisculpta		Atlantic Ocean.	0.9 DL	1885
Bathyarca japonica		Western Pacific.		1977
Bathyarca kyurokusimana		Northwest Pacific
Bathyarca orbiculata		Western Atlantic	0.5 DL	1881
Bathyarca orientalis		Western Pacific.		1931
Bathyarca pectunculoides	Comb bathyark	Arctic, Atlantic Ocean an		1833
Bathyarca philippiana		Mediterranean Sea		1848
Bathyarca pisum		Eastern Central Pacific		1938
Bathyarca polycyma		Western Atlantic.	0.4 DL	1881
Bathyarca sinuata		Antarctic Atlantic and So		1903
Bathyarca strebeli		Antarctica.		1907
Bentharca asperula		Cosmopolitan in deep-wate	0.9 DL	1881
Bentharca avellanaria		Western Indian Ocean		1907
Bentharca irregularis		Western Central Pacific		1993
Bentharca rubrotincta		Northwest Pacific		1958
Bentharca sagrinata		Western Atlantic	0.6 DL	1886
Bentharca xenophoricola		Northwest Pacific		1930
Calloarca cibotina		Western Indian Ocean		1907
Calloarca nuttingi		Indo-Pacific.		1938
Calloarca tenella		Indo-Pacific.		1844
Cucullaearca candida		Western Central Atlantic	10 DL	1779
Deltaodon rubrotinctus		Western Central Pacific		1958
Fugleria tenera		Western Central Atlantic	3.5 DL	1845
Hawaiarca alia		Southwest Pacific		1938
Hawaiarca rectangula		Western Central Pacific		1938
Hawaiarca uwaensis		Northwest Pacific		1928
Hawaiarca yamamotoi		Northwest Pacific		1961
Imparilarca craticulata		Western Pacific		1848
Larkinia multicostata	Many-ribbed ark	Eastern Pacific.		1833
Lunarca ovalis	Blood ark	Western Atlantic	7.6 SHL	1789
Mabellarca dautzenbergi		Western Pacific.		1907
Mabellarca dichotoma		Western Pacific		1863
Mabellarca pulchella		Northwest Pacific		1791
Mesocibota bistrigata		Western Pacific		1866
Mimarcaria matsumotoi		Northwest Pacific		1958
Mosambicarca erythraeonensis		Western Indian Ocean		1851
Nipponarca bistrigata	Two-stringed ark shell	Northwest Pacific		1866
Samacar pacifica	Chuchoca ark	Pacific Ocean.		1934
Samacar strabo		Western Pacific.		1914
Scapharca axelolssoni		Western Atlantic.	5.3 DL	2001
Scapharca brasiliana		Western Atlantic.	4.1 DL	1819
Scapharca chemnitzii		Western Central Atlantic	2.2 DL	1851
Scapharca cornea	Corneous ark	Western Pacific. Introdu	6 TL	1844
Scapharca crassissima		Western Atlantic.	12.9 DL	2001
Scapharca deyrollei		Western Pacific		1893
Scapharca fultoni		Indo-Pacific.		1907
Scapharca globosa	Globose ark	Western Pacific.	11.5 TL	1844
Scapharca guangdongensis		Western Pacific		1993
Scapharca gubernaculum		Western Pacific.		1844
Scapharca indica	Rudder ark	Indo-West Pacific. Clima	5 TL	1791
Scapharca japonica		Western Pacific		1844
Scapharca labiosa		Pacific Ocean.		1833
Scapharca pilula	Pill ark	Indo-West Pacific	4 TL	1843
Scapharca troscheli		Western Pacific		1882
Scaphula deltae		Indo-West Pacific.		1867
Scaphula pinna		Myanmar, Thailand and Vie		1856
Senilia senilis	Heavy african ark	Eastern Atlantic	13.5 SHL	1758
Tegillarca granosa	Granular ark	Indo-Pacific.	9 SHL	1758
Tetrarca tetragona		Northeast Atlantic, Medit		1795
Tosarca vellicata		Indo-West Pacific.		1844
Trisidos kiyonoi		Indo-West Pacific.		1930
Trisidos semitorta	Half-propellor ark	Indo-West Pacific	8 TL	1819
Trisidos tortousa	Twisted arc	Western Central Pacific		1758
Trisidos tortuosa	Propellor ark	Indo-West Pacific	8.5 TL	1758
Vitracar sulcata		Western Indian Ocean		1819

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Species Identification: Find Species

Family: Arcidae (See list of species below)

Family: Arcidae

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