Pleurolucina

Pleurolucina
Shell of Pleurolucina hendersoni (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Lucinida
Superfamily:	Lucinoidea
Family:	Lucinidae
Genus:	Pleurolucina Dall, 1901
Type species
Lucina leucocyma Dall, 1886
Species
See text
Synonyms
† Dallucina Olsson & Harbison, 1953 Lucina (Pleurolucina) Dall, 1901 Phacoides (Pleurolucina) Dall, 1901 (original rank)

Pleurolucina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.^[1]

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

• 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.

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• 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