Paphia (bivalve) explained

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Notes and 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. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=18020 Fossilworks
3. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138643 WoRMS
4. http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/2735035 Discover Yale Digital Content