Wallucina is a chemosymbiotic bivalve genus in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.[1]

Wallucina
Shell of Wallucina fijiensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Wallucina (Wallucina) Iredale, 1930

Distribution

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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

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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

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  1. ^ 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
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