''Tucetona'' is a
genus
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of saltwater clams,
marine bivalve
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Glycymerididae
Glycymerididae, often misspelled as Glycymeridae, common names dog cockles or bittersweets, is a worldwide Family (biology), family of salt water clams, Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusks in the order Arcida. They are related to the ark clam ...
, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, ''Tucetona'' species have a ribbed shell.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tucetona'' include:
* ''
Tucetona amboinensis''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Tucetona angusticosta''
Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
* ''
Tucetona arcodentiens''
(Dall, 1895)
* ''
Tucetona audouini''
(Jousseaume in Lamy, 1916)
* ''
Tucetona aureomaculata''
(Angas, 1879)
* ''
Tucetona auriflua''
(Reeve, 1843)
* ''
Tucetona bicolor''
(Reeve, 1843)
* ''
Tucetona broadfooti''
(Iredale, 1929)
* ''
Tucetona isabellae
''Tucetona isabellae'' is a species of clam that was described in 2011 by Paul Valentich-Scott, Curator of Malacology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), and Elizabeth A. R. Garfinkle, 11th grade student at San Roque High Sch ...
''
Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011
* ''
Tucetona kauaia''
(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
* ''
Tucetona kilburni''
Matsukuma, 1984
* ''
Tucetona laticostata''
( Quoy & Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Biography
Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequent ...
, 1835)
* ''
Tucetona mindoroensis''
(E. A. Smith, 1916)
* ''
Tucetona molokaia''
(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
* ''
Tucetona montrouzieri''
(Angas, 1872)
* ''
Tucetona multicostata''
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
* ''
Tucetona nodosa''
(Reeve, 1843)
* ''
Tucetona nux''
(Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
* ''
Tucetona oculata''
(Reeve, 1843)
* ''
Tucetona odhneri''
Iredale, 1939
* ''
Tucetona pallium
''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'' ...
''
(Reeve, 1843)
* ''
Tucetona pectinata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Tucetona pectunculus''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Tucetona planata''
(G. Nevill & H. L. Nevill, 1874)
* ''
Tucetona prashadi''
(Nicol, 1951)
* ''
Tucetona saggiecoheni''
Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015WoRMS Tucetona
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* '' Tucetona scalarisculpta'' Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
* ''Tucetona sericata
''Tucetona'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs in the family (biology), family Glycymerididae, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, ''Tucetona'' species have a ribbed shell.
Species
Speci ...
'' (Reeve, 1843)
* '' Tucetona shinkurosensis'' Hatai, Niino & Kotaka in Niino, 1952
* '' Tucetona sibogae'' Matsukuma, 1982
* '' Tucetona sordida'' (Tate, 1891)
* '' Tucetona strigilata'' (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
* '' Tucetona subpectiniformis'' (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
* '' Tucetona subtilis'' Nicol, 1956
* '' Tucetona tegulicia'' (Melvill, 1898)
* '' Tucetona tsugioi'' Matsukuma, 1984
References
Catalogue of LifeWoRMS
Glycymerididae
Bivalve genera
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