Gari (bivalve)

Gari
Gari convexa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Veneroida
Superfamily:	Tellinoidea
Family:	Psammobiidae
Genus:	Gari Schumacher, 1817
Species
See text.

Gari is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae, known as sunset shells.

Species

The following species have been accepted by the database World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) ^[1]

• Gari bicarinata
• Gari circe (Mörch, 1876)
• Gari costulata (Turton, 1822)
• Gari depressa (Pennant, 1777) – large sunset shell
• Gari elongata Lamarck
• Gari fervensis (Gmelin, 1791) – the Faroe sunset shell
• Gari granulifera
• Gari intermedia (Deshayes, 1855)
• Gari juliae Willan & Huber, 2007
• Gari lessoni (de Blainville, 1826)
• Gari linhares Simone, 1998
• Gari maculosa (Lamarck, 1818)
• Gari ornata (Deshayes, 1854)
• Gari pseudoweinkauffi Cosel, 1989
• Gari sharabatiae Rusmore-Villaume, 2005
• Gari tellinella (Lamarck, 1818)
• Gari violacea
• Gari wenkauffi (Lamarck, 1818)

The following species have been found in other databases :

• Gari californica (Conrad, 1849) – California sunset clam ^[2]
• Gari convexa (Reeve,1857) ^[3]
• Gari edentula (Gabb, 1869) ^[4]
• Gari fucata (Hinds, 1845) – painted sunset clam ^[5]
• Gari helenae Olsson, 1961 ^[6]
• Gari lineolata (Gray,1835) – pink sunset shell ^[7]
• Gari maxima (Deshayes, 1855) ^[8]
• Gari regularis (Carpenter, 1864) ^[9]
• Gari stangeri (Gray,1843) – painted sunset shell ^[10]

References

• ITIS
• Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973

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