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Anadara; mangrove; cockle; fossil; Colombian Caribbean

A Pleistocene mangrove cockle Anadara grandis (Pelecypoda: Arcidae)
from Cartagena, Colombian Caribbean

Ricardo Alvarez-León ¹ and Jaime R. Cantera-Kintz ²

¹ Universidad de La Sabana. Apdo. Aéreo 101372. Santa Fe de Bogotá D.C.- Colombia. Fax 57-1-8618979; E-mail: alvarez_leon@hotmail.com

² Universidad del Valle. Apdo. Aéreo 25360. Cali (Valle)-Colombia. E-mail:jcantera@biologia.univalle.edu.co

Received 25-III-2000. Corrected 6-IV-2001. Accepted 18-VI-2001.

Key words: Anadara, mangrove cockle, fossil, Colombian Caribbean.

In the Colombian Caribbean, the genus Anadara Gray, 1847 includes, according to Díaz-Merlano and Puyana-Hegedus (1994), five species: A. notabilis (Röding, 1798), A. baughmani Hertlein, 1951, A. ovalis (Brugière, 1798), A. brasiliana (Lamark, 1819), and A. chemnitzi (Philipii, 1851). These species are common in sandy mud bottoms on depths of 1 to 60 m. Only A. ovalis has been founded in waters with low salinities, typical of estuaries and coastal lagoons.

A. grandis A. grandis ^{Keen (1971)}

This specimen suggests ancient exchanges between oceans before the rise of the isthmus of Panama. Associated corals (Agaricia, Favia, Meandrina, Porites, and Siderastrea) are also important.

References

References

Díaz-Merlano, J.M. & M. Puyana-Hegedus. 1994. Moluscos del Caribe colombiano: Un catálogo ilustrado. Colciencias, Fundación Natura, Invemar. Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. 291 p.
Keen, M.A. 1971. Seashells of tropical west America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford University, Stanford, California. 1 064 p.

Publication Dates

Publication in this collection
02 Dec 2010
Date of issue
Dec 2001

[1] Díaz-Merlano, J.M. & M. Puyana-Hegedus. 1994. Moluscos del Caribe colombiano: Un catálogo ilustrado. Colciencias, Fundación Natura, Invemar. Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. 291 p.

[2] Keen, M.A. 1971. Seashells of tropical west America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford University, Stanford, California. 1 064 p.

A Pleistocene mangrove cockle Anadara grandis (Pelecypoda: Arcidae) from Cartagena, Colombian Caribbean

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