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| Fossil valve of Paphia vetula from Pliocene of Italy | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Bivalvia | 
| Order: | Venerida | 
| Family: | Veneridae | 
| Genus: | Paphia Röding, 1798  | 
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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
- ↑ 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
 - ↑ Fossilworks
 - ↑ WoRMS
 - ↑ Discover Yale Digital Content
 
- 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
 
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