Wallucina is a chemosymbiotic bivalve genus in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.[1]
| Wallucina | |
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| Shell of Wallucina fijiensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Superfamily: | Lucinoidea |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Genus: | Wallucina Iredale, 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Lucina (Loripes) jacksoniensis E. A. Smith, 1885 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Wallucina (Wallucina) Iredale, 1930 | |
Distribution edit
This marine genus occurs in the Central Indo-west Pacific and off temperate Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia)
Species edit
- Wallucina assimilis (Angas, 1868)
- Wallucina fijiensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- † Wallucina simulans (Tate, 1887)
- Synonyms
- Wallucina izuensis Okutani & Matsukuma, 1982 synonym of Epicodakia izuensis (Okutani & Matsukuma, 1982)
- Wallucina lamyi (Chavan, 1938): synonym of Chavania striata (Tokunaga, 1906)
- Wallucina striata (Tokunaga, 1906): synonym of Chavania striata (Tokunaga, 1906)
- Wallucina xishaensis Lan, 1997 (unavailable name: no description)
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Wallucina Iredale, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205773 on 2023-09-19
- Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp.
- Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp.
- Williams, S.T., Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Lucinoidea (Bivalvia): non-monophyly and separate acquisition of bacterial chemosymbiosis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70(2): 187-202
- Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2006. Lucinidae (Bivalvia) – the most diverse group of chemosymbiotic molluscs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 421-438
- 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
External links edit
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- Iredale, T. (1930). More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum. 17(9): 384-407, pls 62-65
- Glover, E.A.; Taylor, J.D. (2001). Systematic revision of Australian and Indo-Pacific Lucinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): Pillucina, Wallucina and descriptions of two new genera and four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 263-292.