Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Archiheterodonta > Order Carditida > Superfamily Carditoidea > Family Carditidae > Subfamily Cuninae > Genus Cuna

Cuna gambiensis Nicklès, 1955

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cuna*	Hedley, 1902	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Nicklès, M. (1955). Scaphopodes et lamellibranches récoltés dans l' ouest Africain. Atlantide Report (Scientific results of the Danish expedition to the coasts of tropical west Africa, 1945- 1946), 3: 93-237, figs. 1-41. Copenhagen.
basis of record	Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
additional source	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
identification resource	Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cuna gambiensis Nicklès, 1955. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224608