APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

Marine Bivalve Images - Lucinas and Cleftclams (Order Lucinida)
Lucinida (Order) > Lucinoidea (Superfamily)
> Lucinidae (Family)

Ctena
Ctena decussata (O.G. Costa, 1829)

Loripes
Loripes lucinalis (Lamarck, 1818) - Pale lucina

Lucinella
Lucinella divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lucinoma
Lucinoma borealis (Linnaeus, 1758) syn. Lucina borealis
- Northern lucina

Myrtea
Myrtea spinifera - Prickly lucina (Montagu, 1803)

Lucinida (Order) > Thyasiroidea (Superfamily)
> Thyasiridae (Family)

Axinulus
Axinulus croulinensis (Jeffreys, 1847)
- syn. Thyasira croulinensis - Skye hatchet-shell

Thyasira
Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803)
- Flexuose cleftclam or Wavy hatchet-shell

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Other members of the order Lucinoida
From the authors collection of foreign shells,
species not recorded in the United Kingdom.

Lucinida (Order) > Lucinoidea (Superfamily) > Lucinidae (Family) > Codakiinae (Subfamily)

Codakia
Codakia orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Tiger lucine (Dominican Republic)

Lucinida (Order) > Lucinoidea (Superfamily) > Lucinidae (Family) > Lucininae (Subfamily)

Divalinga
Divalinga quadrisulcata (d'Orbigny, 1846)
- Northern lucina (Panama)

Phacoides
Phacoides pectinatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Thick lucine (Brazil)

 

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