Pillucina

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

Species

• Pillucina australis <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001</small>
• Pillucina copiosa <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2007</small>
• Pillucina hawaiiensis <small>(E. A. Smith, 1885)</small>
• Pillucina maestratii <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016</small>
• Pillucina mauritiana <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001</small>
• Pillucina neglecta <small>Habe, 1960</small>
• Pillucina pacifica <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001</small>
• Pillucina pisidium <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small>
• Pillucina profusa <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016</small>
• Pillucina symbolica <small>(Iredale, 1930)</small>

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

References

• 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.

External links

• Pilsbry, H. A. (1921). Marine mollusks of Hawaii, XIV-XV. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 72: 360-383
• 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.