Parilimya

Parilimya
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent
Parilimya maoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Family: Parilimyidae
Genus: Parilimya
Type species
Pholadomya (Parilimya) haddoni Melvill & Standen, 1899
Synonyms
  • Nipponopanacca Habe, 1977
  • Pholadomya (Parilimya) Melvill & Standen, 1899

Parilimya is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Parilimyidae. Globally distributed, fossils of the genus date back to at least the Miocene.

Description

P. waitotarana

Members of the genus have shells that range from ovate to ovate-elongate, without a sinuous anterior margin. Numerous fine radial ribs is a feature commonly seen in Parilimya.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described in 1899 by James Cosmo Melvill and Robert Standen, as a subgenus of Pholadomya. In 1982, a new family was erected for the genus, Parilimyidae.

Distribution

Members of the genus have been found in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Torres Strait, Japan, the western Pacific Ocean, and New Zealand. Fossils of the genus have been found in Japan and New Zealand, dating to the Miocene.

Species

Species within the genus Parilimya include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Parilimya Melvill & Standen, 1899. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Coan, Eugene V. (2000). "A new species of Panacca from Chile (Bivalvia: Pholadomyoidea: Paralimyidae)". Malacologia. 42: 165–170 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ↑ Melvill, James Cosmo; Standen, Robert (July 1899), "Report on the Marine Mollusca obtained during the First Expedition of Prof. A. C. Haddon to the Torres Straits, in 1888-89", Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 27 (174): 202-206, doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1899.TB01423.X – via Biodiversity Heritage Library
  4. ↑ Morton, Brian (April 1982). "The functional morphology of Parilimya fragilis (Bivalvia: Parilimyidae nov. fam.) with a discussion on the origin and evolution of the carnivorous septibranchs and a reclassification of the Anomalodesmata". The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 36 (3): 153–216. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb00065.x.
  5. 1 2 Maxwell, P.A. (2009). "Cenozoic Mollusca". In Gordon, D.P. (ed.). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. p. 200, 238. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8.
  6. ↑ Kurihara, Yukito (25 March 2010). Middle and Late Miocene Marine Bivalvia from the Northern Kanto Region, Central Japan. Tokyo: Kokusai-Bunken Insatusya Co. Ltd. pp. 71–73. ISBN 978-4-87803-030-7.