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Acar
Acar is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.
25 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Laminated Ark
speciesAcar plicata
White Miniature Ark
speciesAcar domingensis
Botany Bay Ark-shell
speciesAcar botanica
Scaly Ark-shell
speciesAcar squamosa
Acar rostae
speciesAcar rostae
Acar gradata
speciesAcar gradata
Miniature-ark
speciesAcar bailyi
Acar sandersonae
speciesAcar sandersonae
Acar requiescens
speciesAcar requiescens
Acar sociella
speciesAcar sociella
Acar naturezae
speciesAcar naturezae
Acar olivercoseli
speciesAcar olivercoseli
Acar clathrata
speciesAcar clathrata
Acar pusilla
speciesAcar pusilla
Acar congenita
speciesAcar congenita
Acar decorata
speciesAcar decorata
Acar oliveirae
speciesAcar oliveirae
Acar abdita
speciesAcar abdita
Acar marsupialis
speciesAcar marsupialis
Acar transmar
speciesAcar transmar
Acar lepidoformis
speciesAcar lepidoformis
Acar dubia
speciesAcar dubia
Acar carditaeformis
speciesAcar carditaeformis
Acar agulhasensis
speciesAcar agulhasensis
Acar petasion
speciesAcar petasion
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.293
Tractado de las Drogas y Medicinas de las Indias Orientales
Cristóvão da Costa · 1578 · p.354
Museum of the Royal Society
Nehemiah Grew · 1681 · p.476
Flora Sinensis (Chinese-Latin Natural History)
Michał Boym · 1656 · p.31
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.638
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.102
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.356
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.383
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.644
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.362
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.100
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.311
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Acar in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 196283.