Callista (bivalve)

Callista
A shell of Callista chione
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Callista Poli, 1791
Species
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Callista is a genus of saltwater clams, marine, bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

Species[]

Species within the genus Callista include:^[1]

• Clench & Mclean, 1936
• Carpenter, 1865
• Holten, 1802
• Callista chione (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dillwyn, 1817
• Linnaeus, 1758
• Dall, 1890
• Lamarck, 1818
• Deshayes, 1853
• Lamarck, 1818
• (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Sowerby, 1851
• Deshayes, 1854
• Habe, 1960
• Lamarck, 1818
• Kuroda, 1945
• Gould, 1861
• Sowerby, 1851
• Sowerby, 1835

Extinct species

• †Callista elegans Lamarck 1806^[2] - Age range: 48.6 to 40.4 Ma, found only at Falunière de Grignon (Eocene of France)

References[]

External links[]

• †Callista elegans Lamarck 1806 at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 August 2016)