Dosinia

Dosinia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, subfamily Dosiniinae Deshayes, 1853. The shell of Dosinia species is disc-like in shape, usually white, and therefore is reminiscent of the shells of Lucinid bivalves.

Not to be confused with Dosina.

Dosinia
Temporal range:
A whole shell of Dosinia dunkeri from Honduras, on display 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: Veneridae
Genus: Dosinia
Scopoli, 1777
Species

See text.

The genus is known from the Cretaceous to the Recent periods (age range: 99.7 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found all over the world.[1]

Species
Dosinia coerulea
Dosinia exasperata
Dosinia lupinus lincta, the smooth artemis
Fossil shell of Dosinia orbicularis from Pliocene of Italy

Extant and extinct species within this genus include:[1][2]

  • Dosinia abyssicola T. Habe, 1961 Indo
  • Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 †
  • Dosinia acetabulum thori Ward 1992 †
  • Dosinia africana Gray 1838
  • Dosinia alta (R. W. Dunker, 1848) Red Sea
  • Dosinia altenai Fischer
  • Dosinia amphidesmoides (Reeve, 1850) Indo
  • Dosinia angulosa Philippi, 1847 Pacific
  • Dosinia anus (Philippi, 1848)
  • Dosinia aspera Reeve, 1850 Indo
  • Dosinia bilunulata (Gray, 1838) Indo
  • Dosinia biscocta (Reeve, 1850) Indo
  • Dosinia bruguieri (Gray, 1838) Australia
  • Dosinia burckhardti Ihering 1907 †
  • Dosinia caelata Reeve, 1851 Red Sea
  • Dosinia caerulea Reeve 1850 †
  • Dosinia caerulea Reeve, 1850 Australia
  • Dosinia canaliculata G. B. Sowerby III, 1887 China, Japan
  • Dosinia castigata Marwick 1960 †
  • Dosinia chikuzenensis Nagao 1928 †
  • Dosinia chipolana Dall 1903 †
  • Dosinia coloradoensis Rivera 1957 †
  • Dosinia concentrica (I. von Born, 1778) - West Indian Dosinia, Pacific
  • Dosinia contusa (Reeve, 1850) Australia
  • Dosinia corcula Römer, 1870 China
  • Dosinia corrugata Reeve, 1850 China, Japan
  • Dosinia cumingii Reeve, 1850 China, Japan
  • Dosinia derupta Römer, 1860 China
  • Dosinia discus (Reeve, 1850) - Disk dosinia, Virginia to Florida
  • Dosinia dunkeri (Philippi, 1844) West America
  • Dosinia elegans (Conrad, 1843) - Elegant Dosinia, North Carolina to Texas
  • Dosinia erythraea Römer, 1860
  • Dosinia eudeli Fischer
  • Dosinia exasperata (Philippi, 1847) Australia
  • Dosinia excisa Schröter 1788
  • Dosinia exoleta (Linnaeus, 1758) - Rayed Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions
  • Dosinia extranea (Iredale, 1937) Australia
  • Dosinia falconensis Hodson 1931 †
  • Dosinia glauca Reeve, 1850 Japan
  • Dosinia greyi Zittel, 1864
  • Dosinia gruneri Philippi, 1848 China, Japan
  • Dosinia hayashii T. Habe, 1976 Japan
  • Dosinia hepatica (Lamarck, 1818) South Africa
  • Dosinia histrio Gmelin 1791
  • Dosinia histrio (Gmelin, 1791) Indo
  • Dosinia histrio iwakawai Oyama & Habe, 1971 Japan
  • Dosinia imparistriata Tate 1887 †
  • Dosinia incisa (Reeve, 1850) Australia
  • Dosinia insularum Fischer
  • Dosinia isocardia (R. W. Dunker, 1843) West Africa
  • Dosinia iwakawai Oyama & Habe, 1971 Indo
  • Dosinia japonica (Reeve, 1856) North Pacific [= Reeve, 1850 fide Abbott]
  • Dosinia juvenilis (Gmelin, 1791) Indo
  • Dosinia kaspiewi Fischer-Piette 1967 †
  • Dosinia kaspiewi Fischer
  • Dosinia lambata (Gould, 1850)
  • Dosinia lamellatum Reeve, 1850 Japan
  • Dosinia laminata (Reeve, 1850) Indo
  • Dosinia lechuzaensis Rivera 1957 †
  • Dosinia lucinalis (Lamarck, 1835) Australia
  • Dosinia lupinus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Smooth Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions
    • Dosinia lupinus afra Gmelin, 1791 Gabon
    • Dosinia lupinus comta S. L. Lovén, 1846 Europe
    • Dosinia lupinus lincta Pulteney, 1799 Norway
  • Dosinia maoriana Oliver, 1923
  • Dosinia mastrichtiensis Vogel 1895 †
  • Dosinia meridonalis Ihering 1897 †
  • Dosinia nanus Reeve, 1850 China
  • Dosinia nedigna (Iredale, 1930) Australia
  • Dosinia nipponicum Okutani & Habe, 1988 Japan
  • Dosinia orbicularis Agassiz 1845 †
  • Dosinia orbiculata R. W. Dunker, 1877 China, Japan
  • Dosinia orbignyi R. W. Dunker, 1845 West Africa
  • Dosinia penicillata Reeve, 1850 Indo
  • Dosinia phenax Finlay, 1930 New Zealand
  • Dosinia physema Römer, 1870 Japan
  • Dosinia protojuvenilis Noetling 1901 †
  • Dosinia pseudoargus d'Archiac and Haime 1853 †
  • Dosinia pseudoargus gedrosiana Vredenburg 1928 †
  • Dosinia pubescens Philippi, 1847 Indo
  • Dosinia puella Angas, 1867
  • Dosinia radiata Reeve, 1850 Red Sea
  • Dosinia roemeri R. W. Dunker, 1863 Japan
  • Dosinia santana Loel and Corey 1932 †
  • Dosinia scabriuscula Philippi, 1847 Japan
  • Dosinia scalaris Menke 1843 †
  • Dosinia scalaris (C. T. Menke, 1843) Indo
  • Dosinia sculpta Hanley 1845 †
  • Dosinia sculpta (Hanley, 1845) Australia
  • Dosinia semiobliterata Deshayes 1853
  • Dosinia sieboldii Reeve, 1850 Japan
  • Dosinia stabilis Iredale, 1929 Indo
  • Dosinia subalata Smith, 1916 China, Japan
  • Dosinia subrosea (Gray, 1835)
  • Dosinia subulata Smith, 1916 Japan
  • Dosinia troscheli (Lischke, 1873) Indo
  • Dosinia truncata Zhuang, 1964 China
  • Dosinia tugaruana Nomura 1935 †
  • Dosinia tumida (Gray, 1838) Red Sea
  • Dosinia variegata (Gray, 1838) Indian Ocean
  • Dosinia victoriae (Gatliff and Gabriel, 1914) Australia
  • Dosinia zilchi Fischer

References
  1. Fossilworks
  2. Catalogue of life
  • ITIS
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
  • Abott and Morris, Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies, Peterson Field Guides, ISBN 0-618-16439-1
  • Hayward et al., Sea Shore of Britain and Europe, 1996
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