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Cavilucina

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Genus of bivalves

Cavilucina
Temporal range: 189.6–0.781 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Lucinida
Family: Lucinidae
Genus: Cavilucina
Fischer, 1887
Subgenera
  • Cavilucina (Cavilucina) Fischer 1887
  • Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) Chavan 1938
Synonyms
  • Miltha (Cavilucina)
  • Phacoides (Cavilucina)

Cavilucina is a genus of bivalves in the family Lucinidae.

Overview of species

Fossil species
  • Cavilucina elegans Fischer, 1887 (Lutetian of France)
  • Cavilucina (Cavilucina) sulcata (Lamarck, 1806)
  • Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) bellona d'Orbigny 1850
  • Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) orbignyana d'Archiac 1843
  • Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) subgeometrica Fischer 1969
Names brought to synonymy
  • Cavilucina elegans (Deshayes, 1823), a synonym of Fimbria soverbii (Reeve, 1842).

References

  1. Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou Histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants ou fossiles. P Fischer, 1887
  2. Cavilucina elegans (Deshayes, 1823) at gbif

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Taxon identifiers
Cavilucina


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