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Dosinia

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

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.

Species

Extant and extinct species within this genus include:

References

  • ITIS
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
  • Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979
  • Abott and Morris, Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies, Peterson Field Guides,
  • Hayward et al., Sea Shore of Britain and Europe, 1996