Tucetona

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Tucetona
Glycymerididae - Tucetona laticostata.jpg
One valve of a shell of Tucetona laticostata from California, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Arcida
Family: Glycymerididae
Genus: Tucetona
Iredale, 1931

Tucetona is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glycymerididae, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, Tucetona species have a ribbed shell.

Species[]

Species within the genus Tucetona include:

  • (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
  • (Dall, 1895)
  • (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1916)
  • (Angas, 1879)
  • (Reeve, 1843)
  • Tucetona bicolor (Reeve, 1843)
  • (Iredale, 1929)
  • Tucetona isabellae Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011[1]
  • (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  • Matsukuma, 1984
  • Tucetona laticostata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
  • (E. A. Smith, 1916)
  • (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  • (Angas, 1872)
  • Tucetona multicostata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • (Reeve, 1843)
  • (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  • (Reeve, 1843)
  • Iredale, 1939
  • (Reeve, 1843)
  • (Gmelin, 1791)
  • (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • (G. Nevill & H. L. Nevill, 1874)
  • (Nicol, 1951)
  • Tucetona saggiecoheni Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015[2][3]
  • Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
  • (Reeve, 1843)
  • Hatai, Niino & Kotaka in Niino, 1952
  • Matsukuma, 1982
  • (Tate, 1891)
  • (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
  • Nicol, 1956
  • (Melvill, 1898)
  • Matsukuma, 1984

References[]

  1. ^ Valentich-Scott, V. & Garfinkle, E.A.R. (2011). "A new species of Tucetona (Bivalvia: Glycymerididae) from Mexico." Zootaxa 2769: 65-68.
  2. ^ Unkosher honor: New clam species named after Haaretz restaurant critic
  3. ^ WoRMS Tucetona


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