Parilimya
| Parilimya Temporal range: | |
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| Parilimya maoria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Family: | Parilimyidae |
| Genus: | Parilimya |
| Type species | |
| Pholadomya (Parilimya) haddoni Melvill & Standen, 1899 | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Parilimya is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Parilimyidae.[1] Globally distributed, fossils of the genus date back to at least the Miocene.
Description
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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.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus was first described in 1899 by James Cosmo Melvill and Robert Standen, as a subgenus of Pholadomya.[3] In 1982, a new family was erected for the genus, Parilimyidae.[4]
Distribution
[edit]Members of the genus have been found in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Torres Strait, Japan, the western Pacific Ocean, and New Zealand.[2][5] Fossils of the genus have been found in Japan and New Zealand, dating to the Miocene.[6][5]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Parilimya include:[1]
- Parilimya fragilis (Grieg, 1920)
- Parilimya haddoni (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
- Parilimya levicaudata (Matsukuma, 1989)
- Parilimya loveni (Jeffreys, 1882)
- Parilimya maoria (Dell, 1963)
- Parilimya neozelanica (Suter, 1914)
- Parilimya pacifica (Dall, 1907)
- Parilimya sinica (F.-S. Xu, 1992)
- † Parilimya waitotarana (A. W. B. Powell, 1931)
- † Parilimya warrenae (Dell, 1952)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Parilimya Melvill & Standen, 1899. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 January 2026.
- 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
- ↑ 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.