Dosinia

Dosinia
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Present
A whole shell of Dosinia dunkeri from Honduras, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Dosinia
Scopoli, 1777
Species

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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.

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

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:

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