Tucetona

Tucetona
One valve of a shell of Tucetona laticostata from New Zealand, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Arcida
Family:	Glycymerididae
Genus:	Tucetona Iredale, 1931

Tucetona is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glycymerididae, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, Tucetona species have a ribbed shell.

Species

Species within the genus Tucetona include:

• Tucetona amboinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
• Tucetona angusticosta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
• Tucetona arcodentiens (Dall, 1895)
• Tucetona audouini (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1916)
• Tucetona aureomaculata (Angas, 1879)
• Tucetona auriflua (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona bicolor (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona broadfooti (Iredale, 1929)
• Tucetona isabellae Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011 ^[1]
• Tucetona kauaia (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
• Tucetona kilburni Matsukuma, 1984
• Tucetona laticostata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
• Tucetona mindoroensis (E. A. Smith, 1916)
• Tucetona molokaia (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
• Tucetona montrouzieri (Angas, 1872)
• Tucetona multicostata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Tucetona nodosa (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona nux (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
• Tucetona oculata (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona odhneri Iredale, 1939
• Tucetona pallium (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Tucetona planata (G. Nevill & H. L. Nevill, 1874)
• Tucetona prashadi (Nicol, 1951)
• Tucetona saggiecoheni Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015 ^{[2] [3]}
• Tucetona scalarisculpta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
• Tucetona sericata (Reeve, 1843)
• Tucetona shinkurosensis Hatai, Niino & Kotaka in Niino, 1952
• Tucetona sibogae Matsukuma, 1982
• Tucetona sordida (Tate, 1891)
• Tucetona strigilata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Tucetona subpectiniformis (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
• Tucetona subtilis Nicol, 1956
• Tucetona tegulicia (Melvill, 1898)
• Tucetona tsugioi Matsukuma, 1984

References

1. Valentich-Scott, V. & Garfinkle, E.A.R. (2011). "A new species of Tucetona (Bivalvia: Glycymerididae) from Mexico." Zootaxa 2769: 65-68.
2. Unkosher honor: New clam species named after Haaretz restaurant critic
3. WoRMS Tucetona

• Catalogue of Life
• WoRMS