Macoma

Genus of bivalves

Macoma

Macoma secta, the white-sand macoma
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Cardiida
Superfamily:  | Tellinoidea
Family:  | Tellinidae
Genus:  | Macoma
Leach, 1819
Species

See text.

Macoma is a large genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Tellinidae, the tellins.[1][2]

## Species

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According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included as accepted names within the genus Macoma:[1]

* Macoma acolasta Dall, 1921 – morsel macoma
* Macoma awaijiensis (Sowerby, 1914)
* Macoma biota Arruda & Domaneschi, 2005
* Macoma brota Dall, 1916 – heavy macoma
* Macoma bruuni Nickles, 1955
* Macoma calcarea (Gmelin, 1791) – chalky macoma
* Macoma cancellata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1853)
* Macoma candida (Lamarck, 1818)
* Macoma carlottensis Whiteaves, 1880 – Charlotte macoma
* Macoma cerina Dall, 1900 – waxy macoma
* Macoma cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)
* Macoma coani Kafanov & Lutaenko, 1999
* Macoma consociata (Smith, 1885)
* Macoma constricta (Bruguière, 1792) – constricted macoma
* Macoma crassula (Deshayes, 1855) – thick macoma
* Macoma cumana (Costa O.G., 1829)
* Macoma dexioptera Baxter, 1977
* Macoma dubia (Deshayes, 1854)
* Macoma ecuadoriana Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941
* Macoma elimata Dunnill & Coan, 1968
* Macoma elytrum Keen, 1958
* Macoma expansa Carpenter, 1864
* Macoma extenuata Dall, 1900 – slender macoma
* Macoma georgiana Dell, 1964
* Macoma golikovi Scarlato & Kafanov, 1941
* Macoma hanleyi (Dunker, 1853)
* Macoma hemicilla (Iredale, 1936)
* Macoma hesperus Dall, 1908
* Macoma hokkaidoensis Amano, Lutaenko & Matsubara, 1999
* Macoma incongrua (Martens, 1865)
* Macoma indentata Carpenter, 1864
* Macoma inexpectata Cosel, 1995
* Macoma inornata (Hanley, 1844)
* Macoma inquinata (Deshayes, 1855)
* Macoma lama Bartsch, 1929 – Aleutian macoma
* Macoma lamproleuca (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
* Macoma limula Dall, 1895 – little-file macoma
* Macoma lipara Dall, 1916
* Macoma litoralis (Krauss, 1848)
* Macoma loveni (A. S. Jensen, 1905) – inflated macoma, loven macoma
* Macoma lucerna (Hanley, 1844)
* Macoma melo (Sowerby G.B. II, 1866)
* Macoma middendorffi Dall, 1884
* Macoma mitchelli Dall, 1895 – Matagorda macoma, mitchell macoma
* Macoma moesta (Deshayes, 1855) – flat macoma
* Macoma murrayana (Salisbury, 1934)
* Macoma nasuta (Conrad, 1837) – bent-nosed clam
* Macoma nobilis (Hanley, 1845)
* Macoma obliqua (J. Sowerby, 1817)
* Macoma panamensis Dall, 1900
* Macoma phenax Dall, 1900 – cheating macoma
* Macoma praetexta (Martens, 1865)
* Macoma pseudofallax Cosel, 1995
* Macoma pseudomera Dall & Simpson, 1901 – mera macoma
* Macoma pulleyi Boyer, 1969 – delta macoma, pulley macoma
* Macoma retrorsa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1867)
* Macoma secta (Conrad, 1837)
* Macoma shiratoriensis (Matsubara, 1994)
* Macoma siliqua (C. B. Adams, 1852)
* Macoma subovata (Sowerby, 1867)
* Macoma tageliformis Dall, 1900 – tagelus macoma
* Macoma takahokoensis Yamamoto & Habe, 1959
* Macoma tenta (Say, 1834) – elongate macoma
* Macoma tokyoensis Makiyama, 1927
* Macoma torelli (Jensen, 1905) – triangular macoma
* Macoma uruguayensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
* Macoma vappa (Iredale, 1929)
* Macoma ventricosa (Deshayes, 1855)
* Macoma yoldiformis Carpenter, 1864

## References

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1. ^ a b Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2014).Macoma Leach, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-11-01
2. ^ ITIS report: Macoma genus

Taxon identifiers

Macoma|

* Wikidata: Q3005692
* Wikispecies: Macoma
* AFD: Macoma
* BOLD: 88399
* CoL: 7P85J
* EoL: 46474292
* GBIF: 2286987
* iNaturalist: 71252
* IRMNG: 1383182
* ITIS: 81033
* NBN: NBNSYS0000176314
* NCBI: 52799
* Open Tree of Life: 274224
* Paleobiology Database: 17852
* WoRMS: 138531

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