Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis Linnaeus 1767 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative combinations: Lucina borealis, Lucinoma borealis, Triodonta borealis, Venus borealis

Synonym: Codakia jutensis Sorgenfrei 1958

Belongs to Lucinoma (Lucinoma) according to H. Moths et al. 2010

See also Ashley 1895, Bosselaers et al. 2004, Hendy 2007, Kato et al. 2008, Schnetler and Palm 2008 and Wood 1850

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis praecedens

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), France (1), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), the United Kingdom (4)

• Pliocene of Belgium (7), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (5)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (14), Germany (23), Italy (4), Morocco (5), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Denmark (3), Hungary (2)

Total: 82 collections including 83 occurrences

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