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Tucetona Iredale, 1939

204544 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204544)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Arcida (Order)
  8. Arcoidea (Superfamily)
  9. Glycymerididae (Family)
  10. Tucetona (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Pectunculus flabellatus Tenison Woods, 1878 accepted as Tucetona flabellata (Tenison Woods, 1878) (type by original designation)
Glycymerididae Dall, 1908 (1847)
Axinaea (Pectunculus) Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior homonym)
Bellaxinaea Nicol & D. S. Jones, 1984 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Glycymeris (Grandaxinea) Iredale, 1931 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (no description)
Glycymeris (Pectunculus) Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior homonym)
Glycymeris (Tucetona) Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Grandaxinaea Iredale, 1931 · unaccepted (synonym and no description)
Grandaxinaea A. W. B. Powell, 1976 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Pectunculus Da...)  
junior homonym of Pectunculus Da Costa, 1778
Pectunculus (Pectunculus) Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior homonym)
Petunculus [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Tucetona Iredale, 1931 · unaccepted > unavailable name (no description)
Tucetona (Tucetopsis) Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tucetopsis Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Tucetona angusticosta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
  2. Species Tucetona arcodentiens (Dall, 1895)
  3. Species Tucetona audouini Matsukuma, 1984
  4. Species Tucetona aureomaculata (Angas, 1879)
  5. Species Tucetona auriflua (Reeve, 1843)
  6. Species Tucetona bicolor (Reeve, 1843)
  7. Species Tucetona broadfooti (Iredale, 1929)
  8. Species Tucetona canoa (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1941)
  9. Species Tucetona chinoi Thach, 2025
  10. Species Tucetona diomedea (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  11. Species Tucetona flabellata (Tenison Woods, 1878)
  12. Species Tucetona gealei (Angas, 1873)
  13. Species Tucetona guesi (Jousseaume, 1895)
  14. Species Tucetona hanzawai (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
  15. Species Tucetona hoylei (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
  16. Species Tucetona isabellae Valentich-Scott & Garfinkle, 2011
  17. Species Tucetona kauaia (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  18. Species Tucetona kilburni Matsukuma, 1984
  19. Species Tucetona laticostata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
  20. Species Tucetona mindoroensis (E. A. Smith, 1916)
  21. Species Tucetona molokaia (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  22. Species Tucetona montrouzieri (Angas, 1872)
  23. Species Tucetona multicostata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  24. Species Tucetona nodosa (Reeve, 1843)
  25. Species Tucetona nux (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  26. Species Tucetona oculata (Reeve, 1843)
  27. Species Tucetona odhneri Iredale, 1939
  28. Species Tucetona pallium (Reeve, 1843)
  29. Species Tucetona pectinata (Gmelin, 1791)
  30. Species Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  31. Species Tucetona planata (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874)
  32. Species Tucetona prashadi (Nicol, 1951)
  33. Species Tucetona saggiecoheni Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015
  34. Species Tucetona sanfelixensis Zelaya, Güller & Bieler, 2024
  35. Species Tucetona scalarisculpta Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990
  36. Species Tucetona sericata (Reeve, 1843)
  37. Species Tucetona shinkurosensis Hatai, Niino & Kotaka, 1952
  38. Species Tucetona sibogae Matsukuma, 1982
  39. Species Tucetona sordida (Tate, 1891)
  40. Species Tucetona strigilata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  41. Species Tucetona subpectiniformis (Nomura & Zinbo, 1934)
  42. Species Tucetona subtilis Nicol, 1956
  43. Species Tucetona tegulicia (Melvill, 1898)
  44. Species Tucetona tsugioi Matsukuma, 1984
  45. Subgenus Tucetona (Tucetonella) T. Habe, 1961 accepted as Glycymeris (Tucetonella) T. Habe, 1961 represented as Glycymeris da Costa, 1778 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
    1. Species Tucetona (Tucetonella) planicostata T. Habe, 1961 accepted as Glycymeris munda (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  46. Subgenus Tucetona (Tucetopsis) Iredale, 1939 accepted as Tucetona Iredale, 1939 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  47. Species Tucetona amboinensis (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  48. Species Tucetona audouini (Jousseaume, 1916) accepted as Tucetona audouini Matsukuma, 1984 (unavailable name under ICZN Art. 11.6)
  49. Species Tucetona chemnitzii (Dall, 1909) accepted as Tucetona strigilata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  50. Species Tucetona mayi (Cotton, 1947) accepted as Glycymeris mayi (Cotton, 1947)
  51. Species Tucetona pectinoides (Deshayes, 1843) accepted as Tucetona strigilata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  52. Species Tucetona planicostata T. Habe, 1961 accepted as Glycymeris munda (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  53. Subgenus Tucetona (Bellaxinaea) Nicol & D. S. Jones, 1984 represented as Tucetona Iredale, 1939
    marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
    recent + fossil
    Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
    page(s): 301 [details] 
    MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tucetona Iredale, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204544 on 2026-07-01
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    2004-06-06 22:00:00Z
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    Vanden Berghe, Edward
    2006-09-28 06:51:36Z
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    Martinez, Olga
    2011-02-27 15:55:16Z
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    Bouchet, Philippe
    2012-06-25 19:10:10Z
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    Bouchet, Philippe
    2017-04-16 22:50:43Z
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    Marshall, Bruce
    2019-08-11 22:27:57Z
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    Marshall, Bruce
    2023-09-25 08:08:54Z
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    Schneider, Simon

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    Nomenclature

    original description Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
    page(s): 301 [details] 

    original description (of Tucetona Iredale, 1931) Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140205/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/17196/725_complete.pdf
    page(s): 202, 231 [details] 

    original description (of Grandaxinaea A. W. B. Powell, 1976) Powell, A. W. B. (1979). <i>New Zealand Mollusca. Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells</i>. Collins, Auckland, xiv + 500 pp., 82 pls. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

    original description (of Tucetona (Tucetopsis) Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635 [details] 

    original description (of Tucetona (Bellaxinaea) Nicol & D. S. Jones, 1984) Nicol, D. & Jones, D. S. (1984). <i>Bellaxinaea</i>, a new subgenus of glycymeridids (Pelecypoda) from the Western Hemisphere. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 98(2): 126-128, figs. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8277160 [details] 

    original description (of Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799) Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
    page(s): 87 [details] 

    original description (of Grandaxinaea Iredale, 1931) Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140205/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/17196/725_complete.pdf
    page(s): 202-203, 231 [details] 

    basis of record Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details] 

    Other

    context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details] 

    additional source Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140205/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/17196/725_complete.pdf
    page(s): 202, 231; note: unavailable name: no description. [details] 

    		 
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    Editor's comment Not available from Iredale 1931 (no diagnosis) [details]
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