Lucinidae

Codakia orbicularis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lucinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Bivalvia Subclassis: Heterodonta Ordo: Veneroida Superfamilia: Lucinoidea

Familia: Lucinidae
Subfamiliae (8): Codakiinae – Fimbriinae – Leucosphaerinae – Lucininae – Milthinae – Monitilorinae – Myrteinae – Pegophyseminae

Overview of genera

Anodontia – Codakia – Easmithia – Guyanella – Lucina – Lucinoma – Notocina – Parvilucina – Pleurolucina – Pusillolucina – Radiolucina – Rugalucina – †Beauvoisina – †Cubatea
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Name

• Lucinidae Fleming, 1828: 441

References

Primary references

• Fleming, J. 1828. A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Bell & Bradfute: Edinburgh/James Duncan: London. xxiii + 565 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kiel, S., Campbell, K.A. & Gaillard, C. 2010. New and little known mollusks from ancient chemosynthetic environments. Zootaxa 2390: 26–48. Preview.
• Taylor, J.D.; Glover, E.A. 2013: New lucinid bivalves from shallow and deeper water of the Indian and West Pacific Oceans (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys 326: 69-90. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.326.5786 Reference page. 
• Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2016. Lucinid bivalves of Guadeloupe: diversity and systematics in the context of the tropical Western Atlantic (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Zootaxa 4196(3): 301–380. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.1 Reference page. 
• Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2019. Unloved, paraphyletic or misplaced: new genera and species of small to minute lucinid bivalves and their relationships (Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys, 899: 109–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.899.47070 Reference page. 
• 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. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.620.9569 Reference page. 
• Taylor, J.D., Glover, E.A., Smith, L., Ikebe, C. & Williams, S.T. 2016. New molecular phylogeny of Lucinidae: increased taxon base with focus on tropical Western Atlantic species (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Zootaxa 4196(3): 381–398. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Lucinidae in the World Register of Marine Species