Tucetona

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.

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

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
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