Cumingia
Cumingia | |
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3: Cumingia Cleryi [sic] A.Adams = Mulinia byronensis Gray, 1837 4: Cumingia] similis A.Adams = Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Subclass: | Heterodonta |
Order: | Veneroida |
Superfamily: | Tellinoidea |
Family: | Semelidae |
Genus: | Cumingia G. B. Sowerby I, 1833[1] |
Species | |
Cumingia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae. It is also represented in the fossil record.
Cumingia lamellosa is an introduced species in Venezuela.
- Names brought to synonymy
- Cumingia elegans G.B. Sowerby II, 1873 is a synonym for Thyellisca lamellosa (H. Adams, 1873)
- Cumingia parthenopaea Tiberi, 1855 is a synonym for Poromya granulata.
See also
References
- ↑ New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among islands of the South Pacific Ocean. GB Sowerby - Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1833
- Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8
External links
Media related to Cumingia at Wikimedia Commons - Cumingia at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Cumingia at Catalogue of Life
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