Paphia

Paphia
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
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]

References


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