Lucina (bivalve)
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| Lucina Temporal range: Devonian – Present, | |
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| Fossil of Lucina species from Miocene of Italy | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Genus: | Lucina Bruguière, 1797 |
| Type species | |
| Venus pensylvanica Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Lucina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.[2][3]
These bivalves are remarkable for their endosymbiosis with sulphide-oxidizing bacteria.[4]
Fossils of Lucina are found in marine strata from the Devonian until the Quaternary (age range: from 388.1 to 0.012 million years ago).[1]
