Galapagos Species Database
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Pseudochama picta
Joyero falso, False jewelbox
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Venerida
Superfamily
Chamoidea
Family
Chamidae
Genus
Pseudochama
Species
picta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pseudochama janus (Reeve, 1847) (ANSP, 2022), Chama janus Reeve, 1847, Chama picta Chenu, 1846 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Distribution: (C. janus) Golfo de California, Mexico to Galapagos Island, Ecuador and Perú (Cardoso, 2016).
- Cardoso, F. Paredes, C., Mogollón, V. and Palacios, E. (2016) The Chamidae family (Bivalvia: Venerida) in Peru, with the addition of five new records Revista peruana de biología 23(1): 013 - 016 (Abril 2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v23i1.11829
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pseudochama picta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19250. Accessed 1 November 2026.