Macoma

Macoma
Macoma balthica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Veneroida
Family:	Tellinidae
Genus:	Macoma Leach, 1819

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

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included as accepted names within the genus Macoma ^[2]

Macoma secta, the white-sand macoma

• Macoma balthica (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Macoma biota Arruda & Domaneschi, 2005
• Macoma brevifrons (Say, 1834) - short macoma
• Macoma brota Dall, 1916-b - heavy macoma
• Macoma calcarea (Gmelin, 1791) - chalky macoma
• Macoma cancellata Sowerby
• Macoma carlottensis Whiteaves, 1880 - Charlotte macoma
• Macoma cerina Dall, 1900 - waxy macoma
• Macoma coani Kafanov & Lutaenko, 1999
• Macoma constricta (Bruguière, 1792) - constricted macoma
• Macoma crassula (Deshayes, 1855) - thick macoma
• Macoma cumana (Costa O.G., 1829)
• Macoma dispar
• Macoma dubia (Deshayes, 1854)
• Macoma edentula Spengler
• Macoma extenuata Dall, 1900 - slender macoma
• Macoma georgiana Dell, 1964
• Macoma hokkaidoensis Amano, Lutaenko & Matsubara, 1999
• Macoma inflata
• Macoma lama Bartsch, 1929 - Aleutian macoma
• Macoma limula Dall, 1895 - little-file macoma
• Macoma litoralis Krauss
• Macoma loveni (A. S. Jensen, 1905) - inflated macoma, loven macoma
• Macoma matadoa (Gmelin, 1791)
• Macoma melo (Sowerby G.B. III, 1866)
• Macoma mitchelli Dall, 1895 - Matagorda macoma, mitchell macoma
• Macoma moesta (Deshayes, 1855) - flat macoma
• Macoma pellucida (Philippi, 1843)
• Macoma petalum (Valenciennes, 1827)
• Macoma phenax Dall, 1900 - cheating macoma
• Macoma pseudomera Dall & Simpson, 1901 - mera macoma
• Macoma pulleyi Boyer, 1969 - delta macoma, pulley macoma
• Macoma rousi Sowerby
• Macoma subovata (Sowerby, 1867)
• Macoma tageliformis Dall, 1900 - tagelus macoma
• Macoma tenta (Say, 1834) - elongate macoma
• Macoma torelli (Jensen, 1905) - triangular macoma

According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species are also included within the genus Macoma ^[3]

• Macoma blairensis Smith, 1906
• Macoma contabulata (Deshayes, 1855-c)
• Macoma incongrua (Martens, 1865-a)
• Macoma middendorffi Dall, 1884 - Middendorff macoma
• Macoma nasuta Conrad, 1837 - bent-nose macoma
• Macoma nipponica (Tokunaga, 1906)
• Macoma praetexta (Martens, 1865-a)
• Macoma praemitis (Römer, 1872)
• Macoma tokyoensis Makiyama, 1927
• Macoma scarlatoi Kafanov & Lutaenko, 1997
• Macoma (Psammacoma) candida (Lamarck, 1818 in 1815-22)

The database of ITIS includes an additional number of species ^[4]

• Macoma acolasta Dall, 1921 -- morsel macoma
• Macoma dexioptera Baxter, 1977 -- rightwing macoma
• Macoma elimata Dunnill and Coan, 1968 -- beveled macoma, file macoma
• Macoma expansa Carpenter, 1864 -- expanded macoma
• Macoma inconspicua
• Macoma indentata Carpenter, 1864 -- indented macoma
• Macoma inquinata (Deshayes, 1855) -- pointed macoma, stained macoma
• Macoma irus
• Macoma leptonoidea Dall, 1895 -- lepton macoma
• Macoma lipara Dall, 1916 -- sleek macoma
• Macoma obliqua (J. Sowerby, 1817) -- oblique macoma, oval macoma
• Macoma secta (Conrad, 1837) -- white-sand macoma
• Macoma subrosea
• Macoma yoldiformis Carpenter, 1864 -- yoldia macoma

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