''Pleurolucina'' is a genus of saltwater
clams,
marine
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bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
molluscs in the subfamily Lucininae of the family
Lucinidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleurolucina Dall, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415838 on 2021-05-18]
Species
* † ''
Pleurolucina amabilis''
(Dall, 1898)
* ''
Pleurolucina harperae''
Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016
* ''
Pleurolucina hendersoni''
(Britton, 1972)
* † ''
Pleurolucina imbricolamella''
(Dockery, 1982)
* ''
Pleurolucina leucocyma''
(Dall, 1886)
* ''
Pleurolucina leucocymoides''
(H. N. Lowe, 1935)
* † ''
Pleurolucina quadricostata''
(Dall, 1903)
* ''
Pleurolucina sombrerensis''
(Dall, 1886)
* ''
Pleurolucina taylori''
Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2012
* † ''
Pleurolucina tithonis''
(Dall, 1903)
* † ''
Pleurolucina triloba''
(Dockery, 1982)
* ''
Pleurolucina undata''
(Carpenter, 1865)
References
* Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae. London: The Ray Society
ublication 182 319 pp.
* Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
External links
Dall W.H. (1901). Synopsis of the Lucinacea and of the American species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 23: 779-833, pls 39-42.Glover E.A. & Taylor J.D. (2016). Pleurolucina from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans: a new intertidal species from Curaçao with unusual shell microstructure (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys. 620: 1-19
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Lucinidae
Bivalve genera