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genus

Laternula Röding, 1798

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  order Anomalodesmata »  family Laternulidae

Scientific synonyms

Anatina Lamarck, 1818
Auriscalpium Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Butor Gistel, 1848
Butorella Strand, 1928
Laternulina Habe, 1952

Description

Shell oblong, ventricose, subequivalve, thin, translucent; posterior side attenuated and gaping; umbos fissured, directed backwards, supported internally by an oblique plate; sculpture concentric, feeble; hinge with a spoon-shaped resilifer in each valve, furnished in front with a transverse ossicle; pallial sinus wide and shallow.
Distribution: Indo-Pacific. Southern Ocean.
Remarks: Favours sandy mud conditions.
Cotton, B.C., 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 25

species Laternula anatina C. Linnaeus, 1758

Laternula anatina

species Laternula argentea (Reeve, 1863)
species Laternula attenuata (Reeve, 1863)
species Laternula boschasina L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula creccina L. A. Reeve, 1860

Laternula creccina

species Laternula elliptica King & Broderip, 1831

Laternula elliptica

species Laternula eximia L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula faba (Reeve, 1863)
species Laternula flexuosa L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula gracilis (Reeve, 1860)
species Laternula impura H. A. Pilsbry, 1901
species Laternula japonica Lischke
species Laternula laterna (Lamarck, 1818)
species Laternula limicola L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula marilina L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula navicula (Reeve, 1863)
species Laternula recta (Reeve, 1863)

Laternula recta

species Laternula rostrata G. B. Sowerby I, 1818
species Laternula siphonata L. A. Reeve, 1863
species Laternula spengleri J. F. Gmelin, 1791
species Laternula subrostrata J. B. Lamarck, 1818
species Laternula tasmanica L. A. Reeve, 1860
species Laternula truncata J. B. Lamarck, 1818

Laternula truncata

species Laternula vagina (Reeve, 1863)
species Laternula valenciennesii (Reeve, 1863)

Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1295884]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Laternula Röding, 1798]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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