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Acar
View of a left valve of an Acar species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Arcida
Family:	Arcidae
Genus:	Acar Gray, 1857

Acar is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.

Some authors consider it to be a subgenus of Barbatia.

Species

Species in this genus include:

• Acar abdita P. G. Oliver & Chesney, 1994
• Acar agulhasensis (Thiele, 1931)
• Acar bailyi Bartsch, 1931
• Acar botanica (Hedley, 1917)
• Acar carditaeformis (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
• Acar clathrata (Defrance, 1816)
• Acar congenita (E. A. Smith, 1885)
• Acar decorata (Hayami & Kase, 1993)
• Acar dubia (Baird, 1873)
• Acar gradata (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829), from California, US
• Acar lepidoformis Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012
• Acar marsupialis P. G. Oliver & Holmes, 2004
• Acar naturezae Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012
• Acar oliveirae Francisco, Barros & S. Lima, 2012
• Acar olivercoseli M. Huber, 2010
• Acar petasion (Kilburn, 1983)
• Acar plicata (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Acar pusilla (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Acar requiescens (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
• Acar rostae (Berry, 1954)
• Acar sandersonae Powell, 1933
• Acar sociella (Brookes, 1926)
• Acar squamosa (Lamarck, 1819)
• Acar transmar Simone, 2009, from Brazil

Although Simone lists another species Acar domingensis, it has been reclassified as Barbatia.

References

1. ^ "Acar Gray, 1857". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
2. ^ Simone, Luiz Ricardo L. (March 2009), "A new species of Acar (Bivalvia, Arcidae) from São Pedro e São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil" (PDF), Novapex, 10 (1): 9–16

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