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Taxonomy
Lucina vesicula was named by Gould (1850) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; Indo-Pacific.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Anodontia (Cryptophysema) vesicula by Taylor and Glover (2005) and Glover and Taylor (2007).
It was recombined as Anodontia (Cryptophysema) vesicula by Taylor and Glover (2005) and Glover and Taylor (2007).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1850 | Lucina vesicula Gould p. 256 |
| 2005 | Anodontia (Cryptophysema) vesicula Taylor and Glover p. 317 |
| 2007 | Anodontia (Cryptophysema) vesicula Glover and Taylor p. 116 |
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Anodontia (Cryptophysema) vesicula Gould 1850
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. A. Glover and J. D. Taylor 2007 | Medium sized, H to 44.5 mm, L to 48.2 mm, moderately infl ated, T/L 0.30, sub-circular in outline H/L 0.91. Colour white or cream. Periostracum fibrous, buff ; shell surface smooth with commarginal growth increments and halts. Umbones small. Lunule narrow, lanceolate, impressed, slightly scooped. Hinge short, thin, curved, edentulous. Ligament
internal, slightly inset. Anterior adductor scar long, relatively straight, detached from pallial line for about 70% of length, at an angle of about 25°. Tracks of adductor muscle scars often visible on the shell interior. Interior of shell dull, sometimes with radial striations. Pallial line discontinuous, divided into many small scars (Fig. 2F). |