Wallucina Explained

Wallucina is a chemosymbiotic bivalve genus in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Central Indo-west Pacific and off temperate Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia)

Species

• Wallucina assimilis (Angas, 1868)
• Wallucina fijiensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
• † Wallucina simulans (Tate, 1887)

Synonyms:

• Wallucina izuensis Okutani & Matsukuma, 1982 synonym of Epicodakia izuensis (Okutani & Matsukuma, 1982)
• Wallucina lamyi (Chavan, 1938): synonym of Chavania striata (Tokunaga, 1906)
• Wallucina striata (Tokunaga, 1906): synonym of Chavania striata (Tokunaga, 1906)
• Wallucina xishaensis Lan, 1997 (unavailable name: no description)

References

• Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp.
• Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp.
• Williams, S.T., Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Lucinoidea (Bivalvia): non-monophyly and separate acquisition of bacterial chemosymbiosis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70(2): 187-202
• Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2006. Lucinidae (Bivalvia) – the most diverse group of chemosymbiotic molluscs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 421-438
• 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

External links

• 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.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Wallucina Iredale, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205773 on 2023-09-19