''Paphies'' is a genus of large, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the

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Mesodesmatidae ''Mesodesmatidae'' is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Venerida.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Mesodesmatidae Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.o ...

. The genus is

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. The species in this genus include the pipi ('' P. australis''),

tuatua ''Paphies subtriangulata'' is a species of edible bivalve clam known as tuatua in the Māori language, a member of the family Mesodesmatidae and endemic to New Zealand. It is found on all three of the main New Zealand islands, buried in fine cle ...

(''P. subtriangulata'') and toheroa ('' P. ventricosa'').

Species

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Paphies australis ''Paphies australis'' or pipi (from the Māori language) is a bivalve mollusc of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Paphies australis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

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, 1790) *'' Paphies subtriangulata'' (

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, 1828) **''Paphies subtriangulata porrecta'' ( Marwick, 1928) **''Paphies subtriangulata quoyii'' ( Deshayes, 1832) **''Paphies subtriangulata subtriangulata'' (Wood, 1828) * ''

Paphies ventricosa ''Paphies ventricosa'', or toheroa (a Māori word meaning "long tongue"), is a large bivalve mollusc of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. Distribution It is found in both the North and South Islands, but the main habitat is th ...

'' (Gray, 1843) * ''

Paphies donacina ''Paphies'' is a genus of large, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mesodesmatidae. The genus is endemic to New Zealand. The species in this genus include the pipi ('' P. australis''), tuatua (''P. subtriangulata'') ...

'' (Spengler, 1793)

References

Checklist of New Zealand Mollusca
* Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{Taxonbar, from=Q3012645 Bivalves of New Zealand Mesodesmatidae Bivalve genera