Dosinia
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Dosinia | |
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A whole shell of Dosinia dunkeri from Honduras, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Subclass: | Heterodonta |
Order: | Veneroida |
Family: | Veneridae |
Genus: | Dosinia Scopoli, 1777 |
Species | |
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Dosinia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae,(subfamily Dosiniinae Deshayes, 1853). The shell of Dosinia species is disc-like in shape, usually white, and therefore is reminiscent of the shells of Lucinid bivalves.
Species
- Dosinia abyssicola T. Habe, 1961 Indo
- Dosinia alta (R. W. Dunker, 1848) Red Sea
- Dosinia altenai Fischer
- Dosinia amphidesmoides (Reeve, 1850) Indo
- Dosinia anus (Philippi,1848)
- Dosinia angulosa Philippi, 1847 Pacific
- Dosinia aspera Reeve, 1850 Indo
- Dosinia bilunulata (Gray, 1838) Indo
- Dosinia biscocta (Reeve, 1850) Indo
- Dosinia bruguieri (Gray, 1838) Australia
- Dosinia caelata Reeve, 1851 Red Sea
- Dosinia canaliculata G. B. Sowerby III, 1887 China, Japan
- Dosinia coerulea Reeve, 1850 Australia
- Dosinia concentrica (I. von Born, 1778) - West Indian Dosinia, Pacific
- Dosinia contusa (Reeve, 1850) Australia
- Dosinia corcula Römer, 1870 China
- Dosinia corrugata Reeve, 1850 China, Japan
- Dosinia cumingii Reeve, 1850 China, Japan
- Dosinia derupta Römer, 1860 China
- Dosinia discus (Reeve, 1850) - Disk dosinia, Virginia to Florida
- Dosinia dunkeri (Philippi, 1844) West America
- Dosinia elegans (Conrad, 1843) - Elegant Dosinia, North Carolina to Texas
- Dosinia erythraea Römer, 1860
- Dosinia eudeli Fischer
- Dosinia exasperata (Philippi, 1847) Australia
- Dosinia exoleta (Linnaeus, 1758) - Rayed Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions
- Dosinia extranea (Iredale, 1937) Australia
- Dosinia glauca Reeve, 1850 Japan
- Dosinia greyi Zittel,1864
thumb|225px|Dosinia lupinus lincta, the smooth artemis
- Dosinia gruneri Philippi, 1848 China, Japan
- Dosinia hayashii T. Habe, 1976 Japan
- Dosinia hepatica (Lamarck, 1818) South Africa
- Dosinia histrio (Gmelin, 1791) Indo
- Dosinia histrio iwakawai Oyama & Habe, 1971 Japan
- Dosinia incisa (Reeve, 1850) Australia
- Dosinia insularum Fischer
- Dosinia isocardia (R. W. Dunker, 1843) West Africa
- Dosinia iwakawai Oyama & Habe, 1971 Indo
- Dosinia japonica (Reeve, 1856) North Pacific [= Reeve, 1850 fide Abbott]
- Dosinia juvenilis (Gmelin, 1791) Indo
- Dosinia kaspiewi Fischer
- Dosinia lambata (Gould,1850)
- Dosinia lamellatum Reeve, 1850 Japan
- Dosinia laminata (Reeve, 1850) Indo
- Dosinia lucinalis (Lamarck, 1835) Australia
- Dosinia lupinus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Smooth Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions
- Dosinia lupinus afra Gmelin, 1791 Gabon
- Dosinia lupinus comta S. L. Lovén, 1846 Europe
- Dosinia lupinus lincta Pulteney, 1799 Norway
- Dosinia maoriana Oliver,1923
- Dosinia nanus Reeve, 1850 China
- Dosinia nedigna (Iredale, 1930) Australia
- Dosinia nipponicum Okutani & Habe, 1988 Japan
- Dosinia orbiculata R. W. Dunker, 1877 China, Japan
- Dosinia orbignyi R. W. Dunker, 1845 West Africa
- Dosinia penicillata Reeve, 1850 Indo
- Dosinia phenax Finlay, 1930 New Zealand
- Dosinia physema Römer, 1870 Japan
- Dosinia pubescens Philippi, 1847 Indo
- Dosinia puella Angas, 1867
- Dosinia radiata Reeve, 1850 Red Sea
- Dosinia roemeri R. W. Dunker, 1863 Japan
- Dosinia scabriuscula Philippi, 1847 Japan
- Dosinia scalaris (C. T. Menke, 1843) Indo
- Dosinia sculpta (Hanley, 1845) Australia
- Dosinia sieboldii Reeve, 1850 Japan
- Dosinia stabilis Iredale, 1929 Indo
- Dosinia subalata Smith, 1916 China, Japan
- Dosinia subrosea (Gray,1835)
- Dosinia subulata Smith, 1916 Japan
- Dosinia troscheli (Lischke, 1873) Indo
- Dosinia truncata Zhuang, 1964 China
- Dosinia tumida (Gray, 1838) Red Sea
- Dosinia variegata (Gray, 1838) Indian Ocean
- Dosinia zelandica crebra Hutton, 1873 New Zealand
- Dosinia zilchi Fischer
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
References
- ITIS
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8
- Abott and Morris, Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies, Peterson Field Guides, ISBN 0-618-16439-1
- Hayward et al., Sea Shore of Britain and Europe, 1996
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