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Pillucina

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Pillucina
Shell of Pillucina pacifica (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Lucinida
Family: Lucinidae
Genus: Pillucina
Pilsbry, 1921
Type species
Loripes (Pillucina) spaldingi Pilsbry, 1921
Species

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Synonyms
  • Loripes (Pillucina) Pilsbry, 1921 (basionym)
  • Sydlorina Iredale, 1930

Pillucina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.[1]

Species

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Synonyms
  • Pillucina angela (Melvill, 1899): synonym of Rugalucina angela (Melvill, 1899)
  • Pillucina denticula Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001: synonym of Pusillolucina denticula (Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001) (original combination)
  • Pillucina pusilla Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016: synonym of Pusillolucina pusilla (Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016) (original combination)
  • Pillucina spaldingi (Pilsbry, 1921): synonym of Pillucina hawaiiensis (E. A. Smith, 1885) (junior synonym)
  • Pillucina vietnamica Zorina, 1978: synonym of Rugalucina vietnamica (Zorina, 1978) (original combination)

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pillucina Pilsbry, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147102 on 2022-01-14
  • Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. (2007). Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou. Zoosystema. 29(1): 109-181
  • Glover E.A. & Taylor J.D. , 2016. Lucinidae of the Philippines: highest known diversity and ubiquity of chemosymbiotic bivalves from intertidal to bathyal depths (Mollusca: Bivalvia), in HEROS V., STRONG E. & BOUCHET P. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 208: 65-234
  • Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae. London: The Ray Society [Publication 182]. 319 pp.
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