Paphia (bivalve)

Paphia
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Present
Fossil valve of Paphia vetula from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Paphia
Röding, 1798
Species

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Paphia is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. [1]

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 112.6 to 0.0 million years ago).[2]

Species

Cooked Paphia vernicosa in Japan

Species within this genus include:[3]

Formerly included

  • Paphia textile (Gmelin, 1791) has been designated a synonym of Paratapes textilis (Gmelin, 1791).
  • Paphia undulata (Born, 1778) has been designated a synonym of Paratapes undulatus (Born, 1778).

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Paphia Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138643 on 2021-12-02
  2. ^ Fossilworks
  3. ^ WoRMS
  4. ^ Discover Yale Digital Content
  • Chiamenti, A. (1900). Contribuzione alio studio della Malacofauna Adriatica. Nota sulla famiglia della Veneridae, e della Petricolidae. Rivista Italiana di Scienze Naturali. 20(1-2): 9-15
  • Nevesskaja L.A., Popov S.V., Goncharova I.A., Guzhov A.V., Janin B.T., Polubotko A.V., Biakov A.S., Gavrilova V.A. (2013). Phanerozoic Bivalvia of Russia and surrounding countries [= Двустворчатые моллюски России и сопредельных стран в фанерозое]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk. 294: 1-524 page(s): 401
  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds). (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
  • Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.


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