Laternula is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Laternulidae.[1][2]
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Laternula |
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Shell of Laternula takekosugei (holotype at MNHN, Paris) |
Scientific classification |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Mollusca |
Class: |
Bivalvia |
Superorder: |
Anomalodesmata |
Superfamily: |
Thracioidea |
Family: |
Laternulidae |
Genus: |
Laternula Röding, 1798 |
Type species |
Solen anatinus Linnaeus, 1758
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Synonyms |
- Anatina Lamarck, 1818 (invalid: junior homonym of Anatina Schumacher, 1817; Butor and Butorella are replacement names)
- Auriscalpium Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
- Butor Gistel, 1848
- Butorella Strand, 1928
- Laternula (Laternula) Röding, 1798
- Laternulina Habe, 1952
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The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
- Laternula albertensis Russell & Landes, 1937
- Laternula anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Laternula argentea (Reeve, 1863) (taxon inquirendum)
- Laternula boschasina (Reeve, 1860)
- Laternula bullata (Reeve, 1863)
- Laternula corrugata (Reeve, 1863)
- Laternula creccina (Reeve, 1860)
- Laternula elliptica (P. P. King, 1832)
- Laternula gracilis (Reeve, 1860)
- Laternula impura (Pilsbry, 1901)
- Laternula japonica (Lischke, 1872)
- Laternula laterna (Lamarck, 1818)
- Laternula navicula (Reeve, 1863)
- Laternula takekosugei Thach, 2020
- Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
- Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 5. Paris: Deterville/Verdière, 612 pp
- Megerle von Mühlfeld J.C. (1811). Entwurf eines neuen Systems der Schaltiergehäuse. Magazin für die neuesten Entdecklungen in der gesammten Naturkunde von der Gesellschaft Naturforschaft Freunde zu Berlin. 5(1): 38-72, plate 3
- Aller, R. C. (1974). Prefabrication of shell ornamentation in the bivalve Laternula. Lethaia. 7(1): 43-56.
- Taylor, J. D.; Glover, E. A.; Harper, E. M.; Crame, J. A.; Ikebe, C.; Williams, S. T. (2018). Left in the cold? Evolutionary origin of Laternula elliptica, a keystone bivalve species of Antarctic benthos. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(2): 360-376
- Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219