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

Lucininae J. Fleming, 1828

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chavania Glover & J. D. Taylor, 2001
Divalinga Chavan, 1951
Divaricella E. von Martens, 1880
Loripes Poli, 1791
Lucina Bruguière, 1797
Lucinella Monterosato, 1883
Megaxinus Brugnone, 1880
Phacoides Agassiz, 1846
Rugalucina J. D. Taylor & Glover, 2019

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Japanese: ウメノハナガイ亜科

Literature

original description	Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
basis of record	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	Iredale, T. (1937). Mollusca. In: Whitley, G. P. (ed). Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs, South Pacific Ocean. Australian Zoologist. 8(4): 232-261, pls 15-17 [12 March 1937].
additional source	Taylor, J. D., Glover, E. A., Yuen, B. & Williams, S. T. (2022). Closing the gap: a new phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae with molecular evidence for 73% of living genera. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 88(4).

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lucininae J. Fleming, 1828. 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:829419

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