Dosinia

Ringed dosinia Dosinia anus, photographed by Graham Bould.

Belongs within: Veneridae.

Dosinia is a large genus of infaunal bivalves found worldwide. The first members of the genus are known from the Palaeocene of New Zealand with representatives not found in Europe and North America until the Miocene (Marwick 1927).

Characters (from Cox et al. 1969): Equivalve, compressed, nearly orbicular, concentrically striate; lunule well defined; hinge strong, with AII present.

<==Dosinia Scopoli 1777 DK10
    |--D. (Dosinia) P61
    |    |--*D. (D.) africana P61
    |    |--D. (D.) lambata (Gould 1850) P61
    |    `--D. (D.) lupina M27
    |--D. (Austrodosinia Dall 1902) P61
    |    |--D. (*A.) anus (Philippi 1848) [=Cytheria anus] P61
    |    |--D. (A.) horrida Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (A.) kaawaensis Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (A.) magna Hutton 1873 M27
    |    `--D. (A.) waitakiensis Marwick 1927 M27
    |--D. (Kakahuia Marwick 1927) M27
    |    `--D. (*K.) suteri Marwick 1927 M27
    |--D. (Kereia Marwick 1927) DK10
    |    |--D. (*K.) greyi Zittel 1864 P61 [=D. (Dosinisca) greyi M27]
    |    |--D. (K.) cottoni Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (K.) densicosta Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (K.) densilineata Pritchard 1896 DK10
    |    |--D. (K.) imparistriata Tate 1887 DK10
    |    |--D. (K.) johnstoni Tate 1887 DK10
    |    |--D. (K.) mackayi Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (K.) numerosissima Darragh & Kendrick 2010 DK10
    |    |--D. (K.) ongleyi Marwick 1927 M27
    |    |--D. (K.) perplexa Marwick 1927 M27
    |    `--D. (K.) waiparaensis Marwick 1927 M27
    |--D. (Phacosoma Jukes-Browne 1912) P61
    |    |--D. (*P.) japonica P61 [=Artemis japonica M27]
    |    |--D. (P.) maoriana Oliver 1923 P61
    |    |--D. (P.) subrosea (Gray 1835) P61 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--D. (P.) troscheli M27
    |    `--D. (P.) wanganuiensis Marwick 1927 M27
    `--D. (Raina Marwick 1927) M27
         |--D. (*R.) bensoni Marwick 1927 M27
         |--D. (R.) nukumaruensis Marwick 1927 M27
         |--D. (R.) paparoaensis Marwick 1927 M27
         `--D. (R.) waipipiensis Marwick 1927 M27

Dosinia incertae sedis:
  D. alta Conrad 1855 C64
  D. amphidesmoides (Reeve 1850) [=Artemis amphidesmoides] H09
  D. annae C64
  D. biscocta (Reeve 1850) XZ10
  D. brasiliensis White 1888 M27
  D. caerulea (Reeve 1850) F27 [=Artemis caerulea H09, Dosinorbis caerulea M27]
  D. corrugata (Reeve 1850) XZ10
  D. deshayesii Adams 1856 H09
  D. discus C66
  D. dunkeri C64
  D. elegans C66
  D. exasperata (Philippi 1847) [=Cytherea exasperata] H09
  D. exoleta (Linnaeus 1758) M62, L58 [=Venus exoleta K91, Artemis exoleta K91]
  D. histrio (Gmelin 1791) [=Venus histrio] H09
  D. longula C64
  D. miticula Viader 1951 L96
  D. montana C64
  D. nobilis Deshayes 1853 H09
  D. penicillata L10
  D. philippii [incl. Cytherea patagonica] G79
  D. ponderosa [incl. Venus cycloides, D. distans] C64
  D. sculpta (Hanley 1856) [=Artemis sculpta] H09
  D. subobliqua C64
  D. tumida (Gray 1838) [=Artemis tumida] H09

Dosinia (Phacosoma) subrosea (Gray 1835) P61 [=D. (Austrodosinia) subrosea M27, Dosinorbis subrosea M27; incl. Dosinea dispar H86]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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[C66] Clench, W. J. 1966. Extension in range for Dosinia discus. Nautilus 80 (2): 70.

Cox, L. R., N. D. Newell et al. 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt N. Bivalvia vol. 2. The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas.

[DK10] Darragh, T. A., & G. W. Kendrick. 2010. Eocene molluscs from the Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 26 (1): 23–41.

[F27] Finlay, H. J. 1927. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 320–485.

[G79] Guppy, R. J. L. 1879. First sketch of a marine invertebrate fauna of the Gulf of Paria and its neighbourhood. Part I.—Mollusca. Journal of Conchology 2: 151–172.

[H09] Hedley, C. 1909. The Marine Fauna of Queensland: Address by the President of Section D. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science: Brisbane.

[H86] Hutton, F. W. 1886. The Mollusca of the Pareora and Oamaru systems of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (1): 205–237.

[K91] Kozloff, E. N. 1991. Malacobdella siliquae sp. nov. and Malacobdella macomae sp. nov., commensal nemerteans from bivalve molluscs on the Pacific coast of North America. Canadian Journal of Zoology 69: 1612–1618.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[L96] Loch, I. 1996. Notice: R. Viader collection. Molluscan Research 17: 110.

[L10] Lutaenko, K. A. 2010. Bivalve molluscan biogeography of the Japan Sea: an overview. In: China-Russia Bilateral Symposium: Proceedings of the China-Russia Bilateral Symposium of "Comparison on Marine Biodiversity in the Northwest Pacific Ocean", 10–11 October 2010, Qingdao (China) pp. 1–6. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[M27] Marwick, J. 1927. The Veneridae of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 567–636.

[M62] Monniot, F. 1962. Recherches sur les graviers a Amphioxus de la région de Banyuls-sur-Mer. Vie et Milieu 13: 231–322.

[P61] Powell, A. W. B. 1961. Shells of New Zealand: An illustrated handbook 4^th ed. Whitcombe and Tombs Limited: Christchurch.

[XZ10] Xu, F., & J. Zhang. 2010. Study on the bivalve faunal composition of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. In: China-Russia Bilateral Symposium: Proceedings of the China-Russia Bilateral Symposium of "Comparison on Marine Biodiversity in the Northwest Pacific Ocean", 10–11 October 2010, Qingdao (China) pp. 7–12. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.