Cumingia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae. It is also represented in the fossil record.
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| 3: Cumingia Cleryi [sic] A.Adams = Mulinia byronensis Gray, 1837 4: Cumingia] similis A.Adams = Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Cardiida |
| Superfamily: | Tellinoidea |
| Family: | Semelidae |
| Genus: | Cumingia G. B. Sowerby I, 1833[1] |
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Cumingia lamellosa is an introduced species in Venezuela.
Species
edit- Cumingia antillarum A.Adams, 1850
- Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837
- Cumingia coarctata G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
- Cumingia lamellosa (Sowerby, 1833)
- Cumingia mutica G.B.Sowerby, 1833
- Cumingia sinuosa A.Adams, 1850
- Cumingia tellinoides (Conrad, 1831)
- Names brought to synonymy
- Cumingia elegans G.B. Sowerby II, 1873 is a synonym for Thyellisca lamellosa (H. Adams, 1873)
- Cumingia parthenopaea Tiberi, 1855 is a synonym for Poromya granulata.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among islands of the South Pacific Ocean. GB Sowerby - Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1833
- Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8
External links
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Media related to Cumingia at Wikimedia Commons- "Cumingia". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Cumingia at Catalogue of Life
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