Callista (bivalve)

Callista is a genus of saltwater clams, marine, bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

Callista
A shell of Callista chione
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Callista
Poli, 1791
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Callista include:[1]

  • Callista bardwelli Clench & Mclean, 1936
  • Callista brevisiphonata Carpenter, 1865
  • Callista chinensis Holten, 1802
  • Callista chione (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Callista costata Dillwyn, 1817
  • Callista erycina Linnaeus, 1758
  • Callista eucymata Dall, 1890
  • Callista florida Lamarck, 1818
  • Callista grata Deshayes, 1853
  • Callista impar Lamarck, 1818
  • Callista maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Callista multiradiata Sowerby, 1851
  • Callista phasianella Deshayes, 1854
  • Callista pilsbryi Habe, 1960
  • Callista planatella Lamarck, 1818
  • Callista politissima Kuroda, 1945
  • Callista roscida Gould, 1861
  • Callista semisulcata Sowerby, 1851
  • Callista squalida Sowerby, 1835
Extinct species
  • †Callista elegans Lamarck 1806[2] - Age range: 48.6 to 40.4 Ma, found only at Falunière de Grignon (Eocene of France)

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. JB Lamarck - Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1806
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