Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Lucinida > Superfamily Lucinoidea > Family Lucinidae > Subfamily Codakiinae > Genus Lucinoma

Lucinoma borealis (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lucinoma*	Dall, 1901	accepted genus name
*Phacoides (Lucinoma)*	Dall, 1901	synonym

Species group names

*Lucina borealis*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Lucina borealis var. depressa*	Jeffreys, 1864	synonym
*Lucina borealis var. gibba*	Jeffreys, 1864	synonym
*Lucina borealis var. minor*	Dautzenberg, 1887	synonym
*Tellina radula*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Venus borealis*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: lucinamusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: noordse cirkelschelp; noordse lucina sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59

English: northern lucina; northern lucine sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Nördliche Mondmuschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Greek: Λουκίνα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: kalveskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: kalveskjel

Literature

basis of record	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
additional source	Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae. London: The Ray Society [Publication 182]. 319 pp.
additional source	Dando P.R., Southward A.J. & Southward E.C. (1986). Chemoautotrophic symbionts in the gills of the bivalve mollusc Lucinoma borealis and the sediment chemistry of its habitat.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 227: 227-247
additional source	Salas C. & Woodside J. (2002). Lucinoma kazani n. sp. (Mollusca, Bivalvia): evidence of a living community associated with a cold seep in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.. Deep-Sea Research I 49: 991-1005.
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. Lucinoma borealis (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:140283