The Myidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Chinese waters with description of a new species Author Zhang, Jun-Long Author Xu, Feng-Shan Author Liu, Rui-Yu text Zootaxa 2012 3383 39 60 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.281734 43dab820-4818-4933-9e7b-c15187db9fb6 1175-5326 281734 Subgenus Cryptomya (Venatomya) Iredale, 1930 Venatomya Iredale, 1930 : 403 . Diagnosis. Hinge with a small tooth-like process in front of resilifer in right valve; pallial sinus variable in size. Type species. Sphenia elliptica A. Adams, 1851 (by original designation). Remarks. Iredale (1930) erected the genus Venatomya for the Australian Sphenia elliptica A. Adams, 1851 , arguing that Hedley’s association with Cryptomya Conrad, 1848 , was dubious because “ Cryptomya had been introduced by Conrad for an American shell, not much like ours, which has been well figured by Hedley, …” (p. 403) (cf. Hedley 1913 : 275–276, pl. 17, figs. 40–44). Keen (1969) and Lamprell & Stanisic (1998) recognized Venatomya as a valid subgenus characterized by a small tooth-like process in front of the chondrophore in the right valve; the variably sized pallial sinus of Venatomya can obviously not be used to discriminate it from Cryptomya .