Amusium Röding, 1798
RÖDING, P. F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus Cimeliorum e Tribus Regnis Naturae quae Olim Collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten, M. D., p. d., Pars Secunda Continens Conchylia sive Testacea Univalvia, Bivalvia et Multivalvia. Typis Johan Christi Trapii, Hamburg, Germany, i-viii, 199 pp [p. 165]
«Amusium. Die Compas -Dublette.
PETER FRIEDRICH RÖDING, 1798
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Ostrea pleuronectes; H. Chemnitz, 1769-1795, Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet, Band 7, plate 61, figure 595.
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«The genus name Amusium has been overused in the literature for species that have evolved a smooth, streamlined form by different phylogenetic routes (Waller, 1991: 2; 2006b: 331). As used herein, the name applies to a group of Pectinidae that is common today in the tropical to subtropical western Indo-Pacific region, the best known species of which are A. pleuronectes, A. japonicum (Gmelin, 1791), and A. balloti (Bernardi, 1861). In the Early Miocene to Late Pliocene, the genus was also present in tropical and subtropical waters on both sides of the Americas, but disappeared from the American region at the end of the Pliocene. The last surviving American species is A. mortoni (Ravenel, 1844), which is present in late Pliocene to early Pleistocene formations in the southeastern United States, eastern Mexico, and Venezuela.»
WALLER T. R. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 381: 1-197. [p. 93-94]
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