Venerupis

Venerupis
Venerupis senegalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Veneroida
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Venerupis Lamarck, 1818 [1]
Species
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Metis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 Myrsus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900 Pullastra G.B. Sowerby I, 1826

Venerupis is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, commonly known as carpet shells. The valves are robust and rhomboidal with the umbones turned-in and nearer the anterior end. The posterior end is wedge-shaped and the internal margins of the valves are smooth. There are 3 or 4 cardinal teeth on each valve. The foot is large and the siphons are of medium length and united except at the very tip.^[2]

Species

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) accepted the following species as valid in 2011: ^[1]

• Venerupis anomala (Lamarck, 1818)
• Venerupis aspera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
• Venerupis aurea (Gmelin, 1791)
• Venerupis bruguieri (Hanley, 1845)
• Venerupis cordieri
• Venerupis corrugata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Venerupis cumingii (G.B. Sowerby II, 1852)
• Venerupis declivis Sowerby, 1853
• Venerupis decussata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Venerupis dura (Gmelin, 1791)
• Venerupis galactites (Lamarck, 1818)
• Venerupis geographica (Gmelin, 1791)
• Venerupis glandina (Lamarck, 1818)
• Venerupis largillierti (Philippi, 1847)
• Venerupis lucens (Locard, 1886)
• Venerupis rugosa (G.B. Sowerby II, 1854)
• Venerupis philippinarum (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
• Venerupis saxatilis (Fleuriau de Bellevue, 1802)
• Venerupis senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)

As of 2016, WoRMS classifies four species in the genus Polititapes: P. aureus, P. durus, P. lucens and P. rhomboides.^[3]

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