Chamidae

Chamidae
	File:Chama lamelosa ext.png
	Chama sp., drawing of external view of left valve
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Chamoidea
Family:	Chamidae; Lamarck, 1809
Genera
	See text.

Chamidae, common name the jewel boxes or jewel box clams, is a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, the marine bivalve mollusks in the order Venerida.^[1]

Genera and species

Genera and species in the family Chamidae:

Arcinella Schumacher, 1817
- Arcinella arcinella (Linnaeus, 1767) – spiny jewelbox
- Arcinella cornuta Conrad, 1866 – Florida spiny jewelbox
Chama Linnaeus, 1758
- Chama arcana Bernard, 1976 – secret jewelbox
- Chama congregata Conrad, 1833 – corrugate jewelbox
- Chama echinata Broderip, 1835
- Chama florida Lamarck, 1819 – pretty jewelbox
- Chama frondosa Broderip, 1835
- Chama hicksi Valentich-Scott & Coan, 2010
- Chama lactuca Dall, 1886 – milky jewelbox
- Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791 – leafy jewelbox
- Chama pellucida Broderip, 1835
- Chama sarda Reeve, 1847 – cherry jewelbox
- Chama sinuosa Broderip, 1835 – smooth-edge jewelbox
- Chama sordida Broderip, 1835
- Chama venosa Reeve, 1837
Pseudochama Odhner, 1917
- Pseudochama exogyra (Conrad, 1837) – Pacific jewelbox
- Pseudochama granti Strong, 1934 – deep jewelbox
- Pseudochama inezae Bayer, 1943 – alabaster jewelbox
- Pseudochama radians (Lamarck, 1819) – Atlantic jewelbox

^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 53.

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