Pleurolucina

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

Species

• † Pleurolucina amabilis <small>(Dall, 1898)</small>
• Pleurolucina harperae <small>Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2016</small>
• Pleurolucina hendersoni <small>(Britton, 1972)</small>
• † Pleurolucina imbricolamella <small>(Dockery, 1982)</small>
• Pleurolucina leucocyma <small>(Dall, 1886)</small>
• Pleurolucina leucocymoides <small>(H. N. Lowe, 1935)</small>
• † Pleurolucina quadricostata <small>(Dall, 1903)</small>
• Pleurolucina sombrerensis <small>(Dall, 1886)</small>
• Pleurolucina taylori <small>Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2012</small>
• † Pleurolucina tithonis <small>(Dall, 1903)</small>
• † Pleurolucina triloba <small>(Dockery, 1982)</small>
• Pleurolucina undata <small>(Carpenter, 1865)</small>

References

• Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae. London: The Ray Society [Publication 182]. 319 pp.
• Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

External links

• Dall W.H. (1901). Synopsis of the Lucinacea and of the American species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 23: 779-833, pls 39-42.
• Glover E.A. & Taylor J.D. (2016). Pleurolucina from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans: a new intertidal species from Curaçao with unusual shell microstructure (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys. 620: 1-19