Chione (genus)
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Chione is a genus of tropical American marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Veneridae.
[edit] Species
- Chione californiensis (Broderip, 1835) -- California venus
- Chione cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767) -- cross-barred venus
- Chione compta (Say, 1822)
- Chione elevata (Broderip, 1835)
- Chione guatulcoensis (Hertlein and Strong, 1948)
- Chione mazyckii (Dall, 1902)
- Chione subimbricata (Sowerby, 1835)
- Chione tumens (Verrill, 1870)
- Chione undatella (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) -- frilled venus
This is a complete list of the Recent species. Extinct fossil species are not listed.
[edit] References
- Roopnarine, Peter D. and Geerat J. Vermeij 2000 One Species Becomes Two: The Case of Chione cancellata. The Resurrected C. elevata, and a Phylogenetic Analysis of Chione Journal of Molluscan Studies, 66: 517-534
- Roopnarine, P. D. 2001 A History of Diversification, Extinction, and Invasion in Tropical America as Derived From Species-Level Phylogenies of Chionine Genera (Family Veneridae). Journal of Paleontology, 75(3): 644–657
