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

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

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Species

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

Here is an incomplete list of extinct Chione species:

References

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  • "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.