Lucina somalica Basse 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: E. Basse. 1930. Contribution a l'etude du Jurassique superieur (facies Corallien) en Ethiopie et en Arabie meridionale [Studies about the Upper Jurassic (Corallian facies) in Ethiopia and southern Arabia]. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 14:105-155

Belongs to Lucina according to E. Basse 1930

Sister taxa: Lucina (Cyclas), Lucina (Dentilucina), Lucina (Divaricella), Lucina (Lucina), Lucina (Lucinisca), Lucina (Microloripes), Lucina (Paslucina), Lucina (Quasilucina), Lucina (Recurvella), Lucina (Recurvella) dolabra, Lucina aegra, Lucina affinis, Lucina alcatrazis, Lucina amica, Lucina anceps, Lucina aquiana, Lucina bella, Lucina benoisti, Lucina bernayi, Lucina bicristata, Lucina bisculpta, Lucina bombifrons, Lucina brevifulcrata, Lucina callipteryx, Lucina cecchii, Lucina civatensis, Lucina coeloprocta, Lucina colusaensis, Lucina crassidens, Lucina credneri, Lucina crenulata, Lucina cretacea, Lucina dalikiensis, Lucina dalli, Lucina darchiaciana, Lucina dartoni, Lucina dautzenbergi, Lucina decorata, Lucina delaunayi, Lucina dentifera, Lucina divaricata, Lucina djunggranganensis, Lucina dubia, Lucina exquisita, Lucina fabuloides, Lucina fischeriana, Lucina gaylordi, Lucina gunyoungensis, Lucina inca, Lucina kellumi, Lucina kemedjingensis, Lucina kiawahensis, Lucina lefevrei, Lucina leucomomorpha, Lucina liasina, Lucina limopsis, Lucina lirata, Lucina liratula, Lucina luciniolae, Lucina lycetti, Lucina mattiformis, Lucina menardi, Lucina metablata, Lucina metableta, Lucina minutissima, Lucina nana, Lucina narica, Lucina nasuta, Lucina neglecta, Lucina neuquensis, Lucina nuciformis, Lucina orbicularis, Lucina ortmanni, Lucina ozarkana, Lucina pagana, Lucina papyracea, Lucina pensylvanica, Lucina perlevis, Lucina petrolei, Lucina pharaonis, Lucina plebeja, Lucina pomilia, Lucina postradiata, Lucina projecta, Lucina querida, Lucina radiata, Lucina rotundata, Lucina salomoni, Lucina semperiana, Lucina simplex, Lucina subcurta, Lucina subnumismalis, Lucina subobliqua, Lucina subsquamulata, Lucina tjibodasiana, Lucina washingtonensis, Lucina wattsi, Lucina whitei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Tagfidadaedi, which is in a Kimmeridgian shallow subtidal limestone in Ethiopia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Tagfidadaedi

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