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Venus
Venus is a genus of small to large saltwater clams in the family Veneridae, which is sometimes known as the Venus clams and their relatives. These are marine bivalve molluscs.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Warty Venus Clam
speciesVenus verrucosa
Pale Venus
speciesVenus casina
Venus nux
speciesVenus nux
African Venus
speciesVenus crebrisulca
Venus albina
speciesVenus albina
Venus verdensis
speciesVenus verdensis
Venus thomassini
speciesVenus thomassini
Venus subrosalina
speciesVenus subrosalina
Venus lyra
speciesVenus lyra
Venus chevreuxi
speciesVenus chevreuxi
Venus cassinaeformis
speciesVenus cassinaeformis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.179
Jean Jules Linden — Pescatorea: iconographie des orchidées (1860)
Jean Jules Linden · 1860 · p.161
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.710
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.83
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.104
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Venus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 193973.