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Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB) have developed distinct ecological strategies to obtain reduced sulfur compounds for growth. These range from specialists that can only use a limited range of reduced sulfur compounds to generalists that can use many different forms as electron donors. Forming intimate symbioses with animal hosts is another highly su...
Chemosynthetic symbioses between bacteria and invertebrates occur worldwide from coastal sediments to the deep sea. Most host groups are restricted to either shallow or deep waters. In contrast, Lucinidae, the most species-rich family of chemosymbiotic invertebrates, has both shallow- and deep-sea representatives. Multiple lucinid species have inde...
Phosphate mineralization as a skeletal material is uncommon in invertebrate animals and rare in Mollusca. Remarkably, apatite minerals were first reported more than 30 years ago in the periostracum of two species of the mytilid bivalve Lithophaga where shells are mostly constructed of calcium carbonate. This discovery extended the range of biominer...
New molecular phylogenies of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae, using 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA and cytochrome b genes, include species from genera not previously analysed. Notable additions from Myrteinae are sequences from Rostrilucina, Solelucina and Taylorina species, species of Ustalucina, Gonimyrtea from Leucosphaerinae and additional spec...
Citation: Taylor JD, Glover EA (2019) Unloved, paraphyletic or misplaced: new genera and species of small to minute lucinid bivalves and their relationships (Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys 899: 109-140. https://doi. Abstract Species identified as Pillucina are paraphyletic in molecular analyses and a new generic name, Rugalucina, is introduced for a...
Rare species of three long-lived lucinid genera, Gibbolucina, Barbierella and Retrolucina, with origins in the Paleocene and Eocene of western Tethys are present in the Mozambique Channel area of the southwestern Indian Ocean but absent elsewhere in the Indo-West Pacific. A new species, Gibbolucina zelee, is described from the Banc de la Zélée and...
The large, burrowing bivalve Laternula elliptica is an abundant component of shallow-water soft-substrate communities around Antarctica but its congeners are temperate and tropical in distribution and their phylogenetic relationships are obscure. A new molecular analysis of Laternulidae species shows that there are two distinct clades, one of Exola...
We present the first DNA taxonomy publication on abyssal Mollusca from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), central Pacific ocean, using material collected as part of the Abyssal Baseline (ABYSSLINE) environmental survey cruise ‘AB01’ to the UK Seabed Resources Ltd (UKSRL) polymetallic-nodule exploration area ‘UK-1’ in the eastern CCZ. This is the th...
A new species of the lucinid bivalve genus Lucinoma is described from shells dredged at depths of 240-500 m from the edge of the continental shelf off southern Newfoundland. It differs from the other northern species', Lucinoma filosa, in shape, ligament, and characters of the anterior adductor muscle scar. It also differs from the poorly known Luc...
Mitogenomic trees for Bivalvia have proved problematic in the past, but several highly divergent lineages were missing from these analyses and increased representation of these groups may yet improve resolution. Here, we add seven new sequences from the Anomalodesmata and one unidentified semelid species (Bryopa lata, Euciroa cf. queenslandica, Lat...
The systematics of the molluscan class Bivalvia are explored using a 5-gene Sanger-based approach including the largest taxon sampling to date, encompassing 219 ingroup species spanning 93 (or 82%) of the 113 currently accepted bivalve families. This study was designed to populate the bivalve Tree of Life at the family level and to place many gener...
A new molecular phylogeny of the Lucinidae using 18S and 28S rRNA and cytochrome b genes includes many species from the tropical Western Atlantic as well as additional taxa from the Indo-West Pacific. This study provides a phylogenetic framework for a new taxonomy of tropical Western Atlantic lucinids. The analysis confirmed five major clades—Pegop...
Intensive sampling of molluscs from the intertidal to depths of 800 m around the islands of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles (KARUBENTHOS 2012, 2015) recovered 25 species of Lucinidae. All the Guadeloupe species are described and illustrated including details of larval shells and the taxonomy revised within the context of the wider western Atlanti...
A new shallow water species of the lucinid bivalve Pleurolucina is described from Curaçao in the southern Caribbean Sea and compared with known species of the genus from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. Although confused with the Floridian species P. leucocyma, it is most similar to the eastern Pacific P. undata. As in all studied l...
A survey of the lucinid bivalves of Singapore recorded 18 species, 12 of these located during the Singapore Strait Biodiversity Workshop, two others previously collected from the Straits of Johor and a further four species identified from museum specimens. These are illustrated and briefly described. In 2013 survey, lucinids were uncommon at most l...
From the Philippines at the centre of Indo-West Pacific marine diversity we record 78 species and 42 genera from 7 subfamilies of
the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae. Sixty species were identified from over 16,000 lucinid specimens collected in the central
Philippines from the PANGLAO 2004 Biodiversity Project and the PANGLAO 2005 Deep-Sea...
Bivalves are an ancient and ubiquitous group of aquatic invertebrates with an estimated 10 000–20 000 living species. They are economically significant as a human food source, and ecologically important given their biomass and effects on communities. Their phylogenetic relationships have been studied for decades, and their unparalleled fossil recor...
To re-evaluate the relationships of the major bivalve lineages, we amassed detailed morpho-anatomical, ultrastructural and molecular sequence data for a targeted selection of exemplar bivalves spanning the phylogenetic diversity of the class. We included molecular data for 103 bivalve species (up to five markers) and also analysed a subset of taxa...
Although species of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae are often diverse and abundant in shallow water habitats such as seagrass beds, new discoveries show that the family is equally speciose at slope and bathyal depths, particularly in the tropics, with records down to 2500 m. New molecular analyses including species from habitats down to...
A new genus, Clathrolucina Taylor and Glover, is proposed for the widely distributed western Adantic species Lucina costata d'Orbigny, 1846, which has previously been placed in Codakia, Ctena, and Parvilucina. Molecular evidence indicates a closer relationship to Radiolucina and Lucinisca. A new species, Ferrocina garciai Taylor and Glover, is desc...
A new species of the protobranch bivalve Nucinella is described from Panglao, central Philippines. It lives in very shallow seagrass habitats and co-occurs with other chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves Pillucina and Cardiolucina. The species has been included in recent molecular phylogenies. For comparison details of hinge teeth are provided for the t...
Four new species and a new genus of lucinid bivalves are described from shallow and deeper waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. The new genus Scabrilucina (subfamily Lucininae) includes the little-known Scabrilucina victorialis (Melvill, 1899) from the Arabian Sea and Scabrilucina vitrea (Deshayes, 1844) from the Andaman Sea as well as a n...
Revived interest in molluscan phylogeny has resulted in a torrent of molecular sequence data from phylogenetic, mitogenomic, and phylogenomic studies. Despite recent progress, basal relationships of the class Bivalvia remain contentious, owing to conflicting morphological and molecular hypotheses. Marked incongruity of phylogenetic signal in datase...
Nucinellidae are a family of small, monomyarian, nuculoid marine bivalves that live at depths from 6–3,500 m. Related to the Solemyidae, they are suspected of chemosymbiosis with sulphur-oxidizing bacteria, but hitherto without morphological or molecular confirmation. Two new species, Nucinella owenensis and Huxleyia habooba, were collected at dept...
Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as
parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae)
were found in the well-described sabkha sequence exposed in the Musaffah Industrial Channel, Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. More precisely, the...
A new molecular phylogeny of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae is presented. Using sequences from the nuclear 18S and 28S rRNA genes and the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b, 105 specimens were analysed representing 87 separate species classified into 47 genera. Samples were collected from a wide range of habitats including mangroves, seag...
Tellidorella (type species: T. cristulata) is a small eastern Pacific bivalve presently classified in the Cardiniidae, a family other-wise known as fossils from the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic. Evidence from shell characters including external sculpture, hinge teeth, and adductor muscle scars suggests a more appro-priate placement in the subfamily...
Although the remarkable chemosymbiosis between bivalve molluscs and sulphide- and methane-oxidizing bacteria was originally
recognized in a few species of spectacular, large mussels (Bathymodiolus) and clams (Calyptogena) from deep water hydrothermal vents it is now realized that there are hundreds of species of chemosymbiotic bivalves living
fro...
A scanning electron microscope study of the periostracum of 50 species of venerid bivalves revealed that periostracal calcification in the form of aragonitic needles and shorter pins is widespread within the family. Together with organic and sediment coatings that are found in some species, these needles form an integral part of the functional shel...
A molecular analysis using sequences from 18S and 28S rRNA genes of the brackish and freshwater bivalve Cyrenoida floridana, in conjunction with a wide range of other heterodont bivalves, demonstrated a close relationship with the families Corbiculidae and Glauconomidae and distant from the Lucinoidea, where the Cyrenoididae had been usually classi...
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The structure of the ctenidia of the Indo-W. Pacific chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalve Anodontia (Euanodontia) ovum was investigated by electron microscopy. Ctenidial filaments are similar in general morphology to those described from other Lucinidae; with a...
The giant bivalve Lucina megamerisDall, 1901, from the late Eocene White Limestone Group of Jamaica and by far the largest known species of the family Lucinidae, is placed in a new genus Superlucina. Apart from its large size, with a shell height exceeding 310 mm, it is distinguished from other genera, such as Pseudomiltha and Eomiltha by external...
The mangrove-associated chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalve Austriella corrugata (Deshayes, 1843) ranges throughout Southeast Asia where it inhabits mud amongst mangrove trees. Although this species is relatively well-known, our research indicates other quite abundant, related species, also inhabiting mangroves and their margins, which are neglected in...
A quantitative survey of molluscs inhabiting a disturbed, intertidal muddy-sand fl at near mangroves in a sheltered bay in southeastern Thailand recorded a high abundance (to 1,380 m -2 ) of the small, chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves Pillucina vietnamica and Indoaustriella dalli. Two other larger lucinids, Anodontia bullula and A. philippiana, were...
The systematics of the chemosymbiotic bivalve mollusc family Solemyidae in Australia are reviewed using morphological characters and some molecular data. Recognised world genera/subgenera are redefined on the basis of ligament characters and features of the posterior aperture and an additional new subgenus Solemya (Austrosolemya) (type species S. a...
A new molecular phylogeny is presented for the highly diverse, bivalve molluscan subclass Heterodonta. The study, the most comprehensive for heterodonts to date, used new sequences of 18S and 28S rRNA genes for 103 species from 49 family groups with species of Palaeoheterodonta (Trigoniidae, Margaritiferidae and Unionidae) as outgroups. Results con...
Th irty-four species of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Lucinidae are described and illustrated from water depths less than 200 m around New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and Chesterfi eld Bank. Most of the bivalves came from three intensively sampled sites: Koumac and Touho on New Caledonia and Lifou in the Loyalty Islands. Eighteen new spe...
Recent molecular analyses have demonstrated that the traditional Lucinoidea, comprising the extant families Lucinidae, Thyasiridae, Ungulinidae, Fimbriidae, and Cyrenoididae, is not monophyletic. Thyasiridae and Ungulinidae are unrelated to Lucinidae, a result corroborated by clear morphological differences between the groups. Chemosymbiosis in Thy...
Marine bivalves of the family Lucinidae possess a likely obligate chemosymbiosis with sulphide-oxidising bacteria from which they derive much of their nutrition. Molecular analysis has shown that species of the ‘Anodontia’ group form a distinct clade within the monophyletic Lucinidae. Species identification of the largely tropical ‘Anodontia’ group...
