Venericardia Temporal range: Paleocene to Recent
Venericardia planicosta lerichei Lamarck, 1806
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Carditoidea
Family:	Carditidae
Genus:	Venericardia Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms
Venericardita (lapsus) Venericardium Beyrich, 1837

Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.^[1]

It is the type genus of subfamily Venericardiinae. The closely related Purpurocardia was for long included here as a subgenus, but is increasingly considered distinct.

Species of Venericardia include:^{[verification needed]}

• Venericardia amabilis
• Venericardia bimaculata
• Venericardia ferruginea
• Venericardia granulata
• †Venericardia imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
• †Venericardia iheringi (Boehm, 1903)
• Venericardia planicosta

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1