Paphia
| Paphia Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent | |
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| Fossil valve of Paphia vetula from Pliocene of Italy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Paphia Röding, 1798 |
Paphia is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
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).[1]
Species
Species within this genus include: [2]
- Paphia amabilis (Philippi, 1847)
- Paphia crassisulca (Lamarck, 1818)
- Paphia declivis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1852)
- Paphia euglypta (Philippi, 1847)
- Paphia finlayi Marwick, 1927 †
- Paphia inflata (Deshayes, 1854)
- Paphia japonica (Ando, 1953) †
- Paphia kreipli M. Huber, 2010
- Paphia lirata (Philippi, 1848)
- Paphia philippiana M. Huber, 2010
- Paphia polita (G. B. Sowerby II, 1852)
- Paphia rotundata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Paphia schnelliana (Dunker, 1865)
- Paphia semirugata (Philippi, 1847)
- Paphia sulcosa (Philippi, 1847)
- Paphia textile (Gmelin, 1791)
- Paphia undulata (Born, 1778)
- Paphia vernicosa (Gould, 1861)
- Paphia vetula (Basterot, 1825) †[3]
References
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