Chione (bivalve)

Chione
Chione paphia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Chione von Mühlfeld, 1811
Species
See text.

Chione is a genus of American tropical marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Veneridae.

Species[]

This is a complete list of the extant species. Extinct fossil species are listed further down.

• (Philippi, 1844)
• Chione californiensis W. J. Broderip, 1835 - California venus, Banded venus
• Chione cancellata Linnaeus, 1767 - Cross-barred venus
• T. Say, 1822
• Chione elevata W. J. Broderip, 1835
• (Broderip and Sowerby, 1829)
• L. G. Hertlein & Strong, 1948
• (Hinds, 1845)
• (d'orbigny, 1846)
• W. H. Dall, 1902
• Chione paphia (Linnaeus, 1767) - King venus
• Willett, 1944
• (Bory Saint-Vicent, 1827)
• (Broderip, 1835)
• Dall, 1902
• (Carpenter, 1857)
• Sowerby, 1835
• (Wood, 1828) - Semi-rough chione
• Linnaeus, 1767
• A. E. Verrill, 1870
• G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 - Frilled venus, Wavy venus

Here is an incomplete list of extinct Chione species:

• (Dall, 1900)
• Chione chipolana (Dall, 1903)
• Chione erosa (Dall, 1903)

References[]

• "Chione". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Roopnarine, Peter D.; Geerat J. Vermeij (2000). "One species becomes two: The case of Chione cancellata, the resurrected C. elevata, and a phylogenetic analysis of Chione". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (4): 517–534. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.4.517.
• Roopnarine, P. D. (2001). "A history of diversification, extinction, and invasion in Tropical America as derived from species-level phylogenies of chionine genera (family Veneridae)". Journal of Paleontology. 75 (3): 644–657. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2001)075<0644:AHODEA>2.0.CO;2.

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