Paphia is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. [1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Paphia Röding, 1798 |
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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
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Species within this genus include:[3]
- 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 lutaenkoi Thach, 2018
- 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 vernicosa (Gould, 1861)
- †Paphia vetula (Basterot, 1825)[4]
Formerly included
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ WoRMS
- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
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