Acar (bivalve)

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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.^[1]

Some authors consider it to be a subgenus of Barbatia.^[2]