Arcopagia

Belongs within: Tellinoidea.

Arcopagia is a genus of infaunal bivalves found from the Eocene to the present day.

Characters (from Cox et al. 1969): Rounded, somewhat inflated, concentrically ridged, with 2 laterals in right valve; pallial sinus deep, rounded, not confluent.

<==Arcopagia
    |--A. angulata (Linnaeus 1767) [=Tellina angulata]H09
    |--A. biplicataC64
    |--A. carnicolor (Hanley 1846) [=Tellina carnicolor]H09
    |--A. casta (Hanley 1844) [=Tellina casta]H09
    |--A. (Clathrotellina) elegantissima (Smith 1885)S-S90, H09 [=Tellina elegantissimaH09]
    |--A. fabrefacta (Pilsbry 1904) [=Tellina fabrefacta]H09
    |--A. faustaWE63
    |--A. lamellataC64
    |--A. linguafelis (Linnaeus 1758) [=Tellina linguafelis]H09
    |--A. medialisC64
    |--A. ovata (Bolten 1798)H09 [=Tellina calcarea var. ovataH09, N79]
    |--A. pinguis (Hanley 1844) [=Tellina pinguis]H09
    |--A. savignyi (Adams 1870) [=Tellina savignyi]H09
    `--A. tessellata (Deshayes 1855) [=Tellina tessellata]H09

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[C64] Carpenter, P. P. 1864. Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33: 517–686.

Cox, L. R., N. D. Newell et al. 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt N. Bivalvia vol. 2. The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas.

[H09] Hedley, C. 1909. The Marine Fauna of Queensland: Address by the President of Section D. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science: Brisbane.

[N79] Norman, A. M. 1879. The Mollusca of the fiords near Bergen, Norway. Journal of Conchology 2: 8–77.

[S-S90] Slack-Smith, S. M. 1990. The bivalves of Shark Bay, Western Australia. In: Berry, P. F., S. D. Bradshaw & B. R. Wilson (eds) Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee pp. 129–157. Western Australian Museum.

[WE63] Warmke, G. L., & D. S. Erdman. 1963. Records of marine mollusks eaten by bonefish in Puerto Rican waters. Nautilus 76 (4): 115–120.