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Chama (bivalve)

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Chama
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Present
Shell of Chama lazarus from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Chamidae
Genus: Chama
Linnaeus, 1758[1]
Type species
Chama lazarus[1][2]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Synonyms
  • Chama (Chama) Linnaeus, 1758
  • Lacinea G. B. Sowerby II, 1842
  • Maceris Modeer, 1793
  • Macerophylla Meuschen, 1787 ·
  • Psilopoderma Poli, 1795
  • Psilopus Poli, 1795

Chama is a genus of cemented saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Chamidae, the jewel boxes.

Species

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Extant species within this genus include:[3]

Extinct species

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Extinct species within this genus include:[4]

  • Chama asperella Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama aspersa Reeve, 1846
  • Chama berjadinensis Hodson, 1927
  • Chama bezanconi Cossmann, 1887
  • Chama brassica Reeve, 1847
  • Chama calcarata Lamarck, 1806
  • Chama callipona Maury, 1924
  • Chama chipolana Dall, 1903
  • Chama corticosaformis Weisbord, 1929
  • Chama eudeila Maury, 1924
  • Chama fimbriata Defrance, 1817
  • Chama fragum Reeve, 1847
  • Chama huttoni Hector, 1886
  • Chama involuta Guppy, 1873
  • Chama lamellifera Tenison Woods, 1877
  • Chama monroensis Aldrich, 1903
  • Chama nejdensis Abbass, 1972
  • Chama pacifica Broderip, 1834
  • Chama pittensis Marwick, 1928
  • Chama radiata Dockery, 1977
  • Chama reflexa Reeve, 1846
  • Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama scheibei Anderson, 1929
  • Chama strepta Woodring, 1982
Fossil shell of Chama gryphoides

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range 130.0 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b ICZN (1957). "Opinion 484. Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology and to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology respectively of the generic name Chama Linnaeus, 1758, and the family-group name Chamiidae (correction of Camacea) Blainville, 1825 (Class Pelecypoda)". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 17 (6): 73–86.
  2. ^ [Children, J. G.] (1823). "Lamarck's Genera of Shells". The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts. 15: 28.
  3. ^ WoRMS
  4. ^ a b Fossilworks