Chione (bivalve)

Chione is a genus of American tropical marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Veneridae.

Chione
Chione paphia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Chione von Mühlfeld, 1811
Species
See text.

Species

This is a complete list of the extant species. Extinct fossil species are listed further down.

• Chione amathusia (Philippi, 1844)
• Chione californiensis W. J. Broderip, 1835 - California venus, Banded venus
• Chione cancellata Linnaeus, 1767 - Cross-barred venus
• Chione chione
• Chione cingenda
• Chione compta T. Say, 1822
• Chione elevata W. J. Broderip, 1835
• Chione fluctifraga
• Chione gnidea (Broderip and Sowerby, 1829)
• Chione grus
• Chione guatulcoensis L. G. Hertlein & Strong, 1948
• Chione kellettii (Hinds, 1845)
• Chione mariae (d'orbigny, 1846)
• Chione mazyckii W. H. Dall, 1902
• Chione paphia (Linnaeus, 1767) - King venus
• Chione picta Willett, 1944
• Chione pubera (Bory Saint-Vicent, 1827)
• Chione pulicaria (Broderip, 1835)
• Chione purpurissata Dall, 1902
• Chione squamosa (Carpenter, 1857)
• Chione subimbricata Sowerby, 1835
• Chione subrugosa (Wood, 1828) - Semi-rough chione
• Chione succincta Linnaeus, 1767
• Chione tumens A. E. Verrill, 1870
• Chione undatella G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 - Frilled venus, Wavy venus

Here is an incomplete list of extinct Chione species:

• Chione burnsii (Dall, 1900)
• Chione chipolana (Dall, 1903)
• Chione erosa (Dall, 1903)

References

• "Chione". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Roopnarine, Peter D.; Geerat J. Vermeij (2000). "One species becomes two: The case of Chione cancellata, the resurrected C. elevata, and a phylogenetic analysis of Chione". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (4): 517–534. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.4.517.
• Roopnarine, P. D. (2001). "A history of diversification, extinction, and invasion in Tropical America as derived from species-level phylogenies of chionine genera (family Veneridae)". Journal of Paleontology. 75 (3): 644–657. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2001)075<0644:AHODEA>2.0.CO;2.