Chama (bivalve)

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

Chama
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Present
Shell of Chama lazarus from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Venerida
Family: Chamidae
Genus: Chama
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Species

Extant species within this genus include:[1]

  • Chama ambigua Lischke, 1870
  • Chama arcana F. R. Bernard, 1987
  • Chama asperella Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama brassica Reeve, 1847
  • Chama buddiana C.B. Adams, 1852
  • Chama cerinorhodon Hamada & Matsukuma, 2005
  • Chama cerion Matsukuma, Paulay & Hamada, 2003
  • Chama circinata di Monterosato, 1878
  • Chama congregata Conrad, 1833
  • Chama coralloides Reeve, 1846
  • Chama crenulata Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama croceata Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama dunkeri Lischke, 1870
  • Chama echinata Broderip, 1835
  • Chama florida Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama frondosa Broderip, 1835
  • Chama gryphoides Linnaeus, 1758
  • Chama hicksi Valentich-Scott & Coan, 2010
  • Chama isaacooki Healy, Lamprell & Stanisic, 1993
  • Chama lactuca Dall, 1886
  • Chama lazarus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Chama limbula Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama linguafelis Reeve, 1847
  • Chama lobata Broderip, 1835
  • Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791
  • Chama oomedusae Matsukuma, 1996
  • Chama pacifica Broderip, 1835
  • Chama pellucida Broderip, 1835
  • Chama producta Broderip, 1835
  • Chama pulchella Reeve, 1846
  • Chama rubropicta Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
  • Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819
  • Chama sarda Reeve, 1847
  • Chama sinuosa Broderip, 1835
  • Chama sordida Broderip, 1835
  • Chama tinctoria F. R. Bernard, 1976
  • Chama venosa Reeve, 1847
  • Chama yaroni Delsaerdt, 1986

Extinct species

Extinct species within this genus include:[2]

  • 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.[2]

References


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