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Cyclinina

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy
Cyclininae was named by Frizzell (1936). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Chioninae by Bouchet et al. (2010); it was reranked as the subfamily Cyclinina by Carter et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Veneridae by Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Perrilliat (1992), Pacaud and Le Renard (1995), Bieler and Mikkelsen (2006) and Matsubara et al. (2010); and to Meretricini by Carter et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Cyclininae Frizzell
1980Cyclininae Vokes p. 174
1982Cyclininae Woodring p. 696
1992Cyclininae Perrilliat p. 15
1995Cyclininae Pacaud and Le Renard p. 183
2006Cyclininae Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 233
2010Cyclininae Matsubara et al. p. 137
2011Cyclinina Carter et al. p. 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
CardioniFerussac 1822
RankNameAuthor
CardiidiaFerussac 1822
CardiataFerussac 1822
superorderCardiiformiiFerussac 1822
orderCardiidaFerussac 1822
suborderCardiidinaFerussac 1822
Veneroidei(Gray 1854)
VeneroiteiGray 1854
superfamilyVeneroidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyVeneridaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMeretricinaeGray 1847
tribeMeretriciniGray 1847
subfamilyCyclinina(Frizzell 1936)
subfamilyCyclinina(Frizzell 1936)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Cyclinina Frizzell 1936
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Subg. †Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) Makiyama 1926
Cyclina compressa Nagao 1928
Cyclina lunulata Makiyama 1926
Cyclina nodai Nagao 1928
G. Cyclinella Dall 1902
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Cyclinella beteyensis Olsson 1922
Cyclinella cyclica Guppy 1866
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Invalid names: Cyclinella gatunensis Dall 1903 [synonym], Cyclinella venezuelana Hodson 1927 [synonym]
Cyclinella elevata Gabb 1864
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Invalid names: Meretrix ovalis Gabb 1864 [synonym]
Cyclinella falconensis Hodson et al. 1927
Cyclinella galera Pilsbry and Olsson 1941
Cyclinella harrisi Palmer 1927
Cyclinella jadisi Olsson 1961
Cyclinella tenuis Récluz 1852
G. †Cyprimeria Conrad 1864
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Cyprimeria discus Matheron 1843
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Invalid names: Lucina geinitzii Mueller 1850 [synonym]
Cyprimeria moorei Popenoe 1937
G. †Luciploma Olsson 1942
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available