Taxon profile

genus

Tucetona Iredale, 1931

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Bivalvia - bivalves » order Arcida » family Glycymerididae

Scientific synonyms

Bellaxinaea Nicol & D. S. Jones, 1984
Glycymeris (Grandaxinea) Iredale, 1931
Glycymeris (Tucetona) Iredale, 1939
Grandaxinaea Iredale, 1931
Grandaxinaea Powell, 1979
Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799
Petunculus
Tucetona (Bellaxinaea) Nicol & D. S. Jones, 1984
Tucetona (Tucetopsis) Iredale, 1939
Tucetopsis Iredale, 1939

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Description

Tucetona Iredale 1931 (type species Glycymeris flabellatus Tenison Woods), includes the validly ribbed species with few hinge-teeth set on a deeply curved hinge plate, and strong internal denticulation at the margins of the valves.

Cotton, B.C., 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda.

Shell small to moderately large, orbicular, thick and solid. Sculptured with strong radial ribs. Periostracum thin, filmy, lacking periostracal setae, usually limited to the margins. Ligamental area distinctly grooved by reversed chevrons.

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T., 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1.

Author: Jan Delsing

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Included taxa

Number of records: 52

species Tucetona angusticosta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990

species Tucetona arcodentiens (W.H. Dall, 1895)

species Tucetona audouini Matsukuma, 1985

species Tucetona aureomaculata (Angas, 1879)

species Tucetona auriflua (Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona bicolor (L.A. Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona broadfooti (Iredale, 1929)

species Tucetona canoa (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941)

species Tucetona chemnitzii (Dall, 1909)

species Tucetona diomedea (W.H. Dall, P. Bartsch & H.A. Rehder, 1938)

species Tucetona flabellata (J. E. Tennison-Woods, 1877) - Fan-like Dog Cockle

species Tucetona gealei (G. F. Angas, 1873) - Geale's Dog Cockle

species Tucetona guesi (Jousseaume, 1895)

species Tucetona hanzawai (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)

species Tucetona hoylei (J. C. Melvill & R. Standen, 1899)

species Tucetona isabellae Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011

species Tucetona kauaia (W.H. Dall, P. Bartsch & H.A. Rehder, 1938)

species Tucetona kilburni Matsukuma, 1984

species Tucetona laticostata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)

species Tucetona mindoroensis (E.A. Smith, 1916)

species Tucetona molokaia (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)

species Tucetona montrouzieri (Angas, 1872)

species Tucetona multicostata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)

species Tucetona nodosa (L. A. Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona nux (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)

species Tucetona oculata (Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona odhneri T. Iredale, 1939

species Tucetona pallium (L.A. Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)

species Tucetona pectinoides (Deshayes, 1843)

species Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

species Tucetona planata (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874)

species Tucetona prashadi (Nicol, 1951)

species Tucetona saggiecoheni G.T. Poppe, S.P. Tagaro & P. Stahlschmidt, 2015

species Tucetona scalarisculpta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990

species Tucetona sericata (Reeve, 1843)

species Tucetona shinkurosensis Hatai, Niino & Kotaka, 1952

species Tucetona sibogae A. Matsukuma, 1982

species Tucetona sordida (R. Tate, 1891) - Dirty Dog Cockle

species Tucetona strigilata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)

species Tucetona subpectiniformis (S. Nomura & N. Zinbo, 1934)

species Tucetona subtilis D. Nicol, 1956

species Tucetona tegulicia (J.C. Melvill, 1898)

species Tucetona tsugioi Matsukuma, 1984

Fossil taxa

species Tucetona aucklandica (Powell, 1938) ^†

species Tucetona brachytona (Suter, 1917) ^†

species Tucetona chambersi (P. Marshall & Browne, 1909) ^†

species Tucetona finlayi (Laws, 1939) ^†

species Tucetona lornensis (Marwick, 1923) ^†

species Tucetona monsadusta (Marwick, 1932) ^†

species Tucetona traversi (Hutton, 1873) ^†

species Tucetona wairarapaensis (Powell, 1938) ^†

Links and literature

Paleobiology Database [16324]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Tucetona Iredale, 1939]
Data retrieved on: 11 December 2015

Paleobiology Database [167872]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Bellaxinaea Nicol, 1984]
Data retrieved on: 11 December 2015

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1092446]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Tucetona Iredale, 1931]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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