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Dione Gray, 1847 
AphiaID: 206504

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Dione Gray, 1847, non Hübner, 1819 [Lepidoptera]; Hysteroconcha is a replacement name)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Hysteroconcha Dall, 1902
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Venus dione Linnaeus, 1758 (type by original designation)
Parent Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815
Source  basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 
Species Dione alabastrum Reeve, 1863 accepted as Pitar alabastrum (Reeve, 1863)
Species Dione australica Reeve, 1863 accepted as Pitar pellucidus (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Dione brevispinata accepted as Hysteroconcha brevispinosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
Species Dione candida Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Callista diemenensis (Hanley, 1844)
Species Dione crocea Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Aphrodora crocea (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione erubescens Reeve, 1863 accepted as Aphrodora yerburyi (E. A. Smith, 1891)
Species Dione exspinata Reeve, 1863 accepted as Hysteroconcha lupanaria (Lesson, 1831)
Species Dione grata Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Callista grata (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione grayi Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Callista kingii (Gray in King, 1827)
Species Dione phasianella Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Callista phasianella (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione philippii Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Pitar inflatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
Species Dione pura Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Pitar pura (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione rufescens Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Pitar rufescens (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione sphaericula Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Tawera sphaericula (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Dione striata Reeve, 1863 accepted as Pitar laetus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dione torresica Reeve, 1863 accepted as Pitar subpellucidus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
Species Dione ustulata Reeve, 1863 accepted as Pitar citrinus (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Dione veneris Deshayes, 1853 accepted as Hysteroconcha dione (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution Tanzania [details]
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206504
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-08-21 16:11:41Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2010-09-02 12:34:37Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-10 13:08:08Z  changed  Huber, Markus
2012-10-14 08:50:13Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Dione Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206504 on 2013-05-21
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