Kellia Turton 1822
- 1. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2259 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- 3. Sea Change Trust, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa & Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
- 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 1900 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Description
Kellia Turton, 1822
Kellia Turton, 1822. Type species (subsequent designation, Récluz 1844): Mya suborbicularis (Montagu, 1803). Recent, North Atlantic.
Chironia Deshayes, 1839. Type species (monotypy): Chironia laperousii Deshayes, 1839.
Diplodontina Stempell, 1899. Type species (monotypy): Diplodontina tumbesiana Stempel, 1899. Recent, Chile.
Description.
Shell subovate to ovate-elongate, inflated, subequilateral, equivalve; umbos prosogyrate; sculpture of commarginal ribs, striae, or growth checks; periostracum thin, translucent, green to yellow, dehiscent to adherent; hinge plate narrow; two small cardinal teeth in left valve, one cardinal tooth in right valve; one elongate, posterior lateral tooth in both valves; ligament internal, robust, in elongate resilifer.
Discussion.
There has been much taxonomic confusion with members of Kellia, especially in the southern hemisphere, and the genus needs a global revision. Kamenev (2004) documented many species of Kellia from the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. The functional morphology of the genus has been documented by Oldfield (1961) and the sperm morphology by Jespersen and Lützen (2007)
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- Turton W (1822) Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum. The shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged. Collum, Exeter, xlvii + 279 pp. [20 pls.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10443
- Récluz CA (1844) Prodrome d'une monographie du genre erycine. Société Cuviérienne, Revue Zoologique 7: 291–299 (Aug.); (9): 325–336 (Sept.).
- Montagu G (1803) Testacea Britannica, or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: systematically arranged and embellished with figures. Romsey (Hollis). 2 vols. 1: xxxvii + 292 pp; 2: 293 - 606. [16 pls.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 33927
- Deshayes GP (1839) Nouvelles especes de mollusques, provenant des cotes de la Californie, du Mexique, de Kamtschatka et de Nouvelle-Zelande .... Societe Cuvierienne. Revue Zoologique 2: 356 - 361.
- Stempell CLW (1899) Die Muscheln der Sammlung Plate (systematische Uebersicht). Zoologische Jahrbucher, Supplement 5 [Fauna Chilensis 2]: 217 - 250. [pl. 12]
- Kamenev GM (2004) New species of the genus Kellia (Bivalvia: Kelliidae) from the Commander Islands, with notes on Kellia comandorica Scarlato, 1981. Malacologia 46: 57–71.
- Oldfield EW (1961) The functional morphology of Kellia suborbicularis (Montagu), Montacuta ferruginosa (Montagu) and M. substriata (Montagu) (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata). Journal of Molluscan Studies 34 (5): 255–295. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064872
- Jespersen Å, Lützen J (2007) Sperm ultrastructure in Kellia suborbicularis (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea: Kelliidae. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm, Sweden) 88 (1): 59–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2007.00251.x [sic]