Cumingia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae. It is also represented in the fossil record.

Cumingia
3: Cumingia Cleryi [sic] A.Adams = Mulinia byronensis Gray, 1837

4: Cumingia] similis A.Adams = Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837
5: Cumingia striata A.Adams = Cumingia mutica G.B.Sowerby, 1833
6: Cumingia sinuosa A.Adams, 1850
7: Cumingia fragilis A.Adams = Cumingia antillarum A.Adams, 1850

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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Cardiida
Superfamily: Tellinoidea
Family: Semelidae
Genus: Cumingia
G. B. Sowerby I, 1833[1]
Species

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Cumingia lamellosa is an introduced species in Venezuela.

Species

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Names brought to synonymy

See also

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References

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  1. ^ New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among islands of the South Pacific Ocean. GB Sowerby - Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1833
  • Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8
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