''Dosinia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of saltwater clams, marine

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mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the

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Veneridae The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus (mythology), Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. Over 500 living species of venerid bivalves are known, most of which are edible, and m ...

, 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

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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.Fossilworks
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Species

Extant and extinct species within this genus include:Catalogue of life
/ref> * '' Dosinia abyssicola'' T. Habe, 1961 Indo * '' Dosinia acetabulum'' Conrad 1832 † * '' Dosinia acetabulum'' thori Ward 1992 † * '' Dosinia africana'' Gray 1838 * '' Dosinia alta'' (R. W. Dunker, 1848) Red Sea * '' Dosinia altenai'' Fischer * '' Dosinia amphidesmoides'' ( Reeve, 1850) Indo * '' Dosinia angulosa''

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, 1847 Pacific * '' Dosinia anus'' (

, 1848) * '' Dosinia aspera'' Reeve, 1850 Indo * '' Dosinia bilunulata'' (Gray, 1838) Indo * '' Dosinia biscocta'' ( Reeve, 1850) Indo * '' Dosinia bruguieri'' (Gray, 1838) Australia * '' Dosinia burckhardti'' Ihering 1907 † * '' Dosinia caelata'' Reeve, 1851 Red Sea * '' Dosinia caerulea'' Reeve 1850 † * '' Dosinia caerulea'' Reeve, 1850 Australia * '' Dosinia canaliculata'' G. B. Sowerby III, 1887 China, Japan * '' Dosinia castigata'' Marwick 1960 † * '' Dosinia chikuzenensis'' Nagao 1928 † * '' Dosinia chipolana'' Dall 1903 † * '' Dosinia coloradoensis'' Rivera 1957 † * '' Dosinia concentrica'' (I. von Born, 1778) - West Indian Dosinia, Pacific * '' Dosinia contusa'' ( Reeve, 1850) Australia * '' Dosinia corcula'' Römer, 1870 China * '' Dosinia corrugata'' Reeve, 1850 China, Japan * '' Dosinia cumingii'' Reeve, 1850 China, Japan * '' Dosinia derupta'' Römer, 1860 China * '' Dosinia discus'' (Reeve, 1850) - Disk dosinia, Virginia to Florida * '' Dosinia dunkeri'' (

, 1844) West America * '' Dosinia elegans'' (Conrad, 1843) - Elegant Dosinia, North Carolina to Texas * '' Dosinia erythraea'' Römer, 1860 * '' Dosinia eudeli'' Fischer * '' Dosinia exasperata'' (

, 1847) Australia * '' Dosinia excisa'' Schröter 1788 * '' Dosinia exoleta'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

, 1758) - Rayed Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions * '' Dosinia extranea'' ( Iredale, 1937) Australia * '' Dosinia falconensis'' Hodson 1931 † * '' Dosinia glauca'' Reeve, 1850 Japan * '' Dosinia greyi'' Zittel, 1864 * '' Dosinia gruneri''

, 1848 China, Japan * '' Dosinia hayashii'' T. Habe, 1976 Japan * '' Dosinia hepatica'' (

Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...

, 1818) South Africa * '' Dosinia histrio'' Gmelin 1791 * '' Dosinia histrio'' (

Gmelin Gmelin may refer to: * Karl Christian Gmelin, Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis, Alsatica et confinium regionum cis- et transrhenania'' (1806) * Charles Gmelin (1872–1950), British Olympic athlete * ...

, 1791) Indo * '' Dosinia histrio'' iwakawai Oyama & Habe, 1971 Japan * '' Dosinia imparistriata'' Tate 1887 † * '' Dosinia incisa'' ( Reeve, 1850) Australia * '' Dosinia insularum'' Fischer * '' Dosinia isocardia'' (R. W. Dunker, 1843) West Africa * '' Dosinia iwakawai'' Oyama & Habe, 1971 Indo * '' Dosinia japonica'' ( Reeve, 1856) North Pacific Reeve, 1850 fide Abbott/small> * '' Dosinia juvenilis'' (

, 1791) Indo * '' Dosinia kaspiewi'' Fischer-Piette 1967 † * '' Dosinia kaspiewi'' Fischer * '' Dosinia lambata'' ( Gould, 1850) * '' Dosinia lamellatum'' Reeve, 1850 Japan * '' Dosinia laminata'' ( Reeve, 1850) Indo * '' Dosinia lechuzaensis'' Rivera 1957 † * '' Dosinia lucinalis'' (

, 1835) Australia * '' Dosinia lupinus'' (

, 1758) - Smooth Artemis, Boreal-Atlantic and Lusitanian regions ** '' Dosinia lupinus afra''

, 1791 Gabon ** '' Dosinia lupinus comta'' S. L. Lovén, 1846 Europe ** '' Dosinia lupinus lincta'' Pulteney, 1799 Norway * '' Dosinia maoriana'' Oliver, 1923 * '' Dosinia mastrichtiensis'' Vogel 1895 † * '' Dosinia meridonalis'' Ihering 1897 † * '' Dosinia nanus'' Reeve, 1850 China * '' Dosinia nedigna'' ( Iredale, 1930) Australia * '' Dosinia nipponicum'' Okutani & Habe, 1988 Japan * '' Dosinia orbicularis'' Agassiz 1845 † * '' Dosinia orbiculata'' R. W. Dunker, 1877 China, Japan * '' Dosinia orbignyi'' R. W. Dunker, 1845 West Africa * '' Dosinia penicillata'' Reeve, 1850 Indo * '' Dosinia phenax'' Finlay, 1930 New Zealand * '' Dosinia physema'' Römer, 1870 Japan * '' Dosinia protojuvenilis'' Noetling 1901 † * '' Dosinia pseudoargus'' d'Archiac and Haime 1853 † * '' Dosinia pseudoargus'' gedrosiana Vredenburg 1928 † * '' Dosinia pubescens''

, 1847 Indo * '' Dosinia puella'' Angas, 1867 * '' Dosinia radiata'' Reeve, 1850 Red Sea * '' Dosinia roemeri'' R. W. Dunker, 1863 Japan * '' Dosinia santana'' Loel and Corey 1932 † * '' Dosinia scabriuscula''

, 1847 Japan * '' Dosinia scalaris'' Menke 1843 † * '' Dosinia scalaris'' (C. T. Menke, 1843) Indo * '' Dosinia sculpta'' Hanley 1845 † * '' Dosinia sculpta'' (Hanley, 1845) Australia * '' Dosinia semiobliterata'' Deshayes 1853 * '' Dosinia sieboldii'' Reeve, 1850 Japan * '' Dosinia stabilis'' Iredale, 1929 Indo * '' Dosinia subalata'' Smith, 1916 China, Japan * '' Dosinia subrosea'' (Gray, 1835) * '' Dosinia subulata'' Smith, 1916 Japan * '' Dosinia troscheli'' (Lischke, 1873) Indo * '' Dosinia truncata'' Zhuang, 1964 China * '' Dosinia tugaruana'' Nomura 1935 † * '' Dosinia tumida'' (Gray, 1838) Red Sea * '' Dosinia variegata'' (Gray, 1838) Indian Ocean * '' Dosinia victoriae'' (Gatliff and Gabriel, 1914) Australia * '' Dosinia zilchi'' Fischer

References

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* Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * Glen Pownall, ''New Zealand Shells and Shellfish'', Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 * Abott and Morris, Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies, Peterson Field Guides, * Hayward et al., Sea Shore of Britain and Europe, 1996 Bivalve genera Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli {{Veneridae-stub