Wallucina
Genus of bivalve
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Wallucina is a chemosymbiotic bivalve genus in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.[1]
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| Wallucina | |
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| Shell of Wallucina fijiensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Superfamily: | Lucinoidea |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Genus: | Wallucina Iredale, 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Lucina (Loripes) jacksoniensis E. A. Smith, 1885 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Wallucina (Wallucina) Iredale, 1930 | |
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)
