Funafutia levukana ( Smith, 1885 )
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Funafutia levukana ( Smith, 1885 ) |
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Funafutia levukana ( Smith, 1885) View in CoL
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Lucina levukana Smith, 1885: 181 View in CoL , pl. 13, fig. 6.
Lucina (Codakia) oblonga Hedley, 1899: 497 View in CoL , fig. 51.
Lucina funafutica Finlay, 1927: 529 View in CoL .
Funafutia levukana View in CoL – Glover & Taylor 2001: 286, fig. 22a-d.
TYPE MATERIAL. — L. levukana : 2 syntypes, decayed ( BMNH 1887.2.9.2778).
Lucina oblonga : Funafuti, 2 syntypes ( AMS C.6157).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Levuka, Fiji.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Koumac. 9 stn, 10-20 m, 38 v, 33 live.
Touho. 8 stn, 0-35 m, 80 v, 14 live.
Lifou. 33 stn, 0-30 m, 480 v, 81 live.
Other New Caledonia. LAGON, stn 251, secteur de Nouméa, 22°19’S, 166°25’E, 20 m, 1 sh.
DISTRIBUTION. —?Red Sea, western Indian Ocean to West Pacific, Tuvalu, Wallis Islands, Marquesas.
DESCRIPTION
Small, white, yellow or pink, H to 6 mm, longer than high (H/L 0.89) and extended anteriorly, robust, inflated. Protoconch inflated (L 160 µm), PI smooth, 88 µm, PII with growth increments. Sculpture of prominent, rounded, regularly spaced commarginal lamellae that are often abraded. Surface of shell and lamellae with fine increments divided by lines of pits about 2.0 µm in diameter ( Fig. 37F View FIG ). Numerous fine radial folds within interspaces. Lunule long, lanceolate and impressed; umbonal area prominent. RV with large, single cardinal tooth and prominent posterior and anterior lateral teeth. LV with two cardinal teeth and two anterior and posterior lateral teeth. Ligament internal, with short, narrow, triangular resilifer. Anterior adductor scar short and rounded, barely detached from the pallial line, posterior scar ovate. Pallial line discontinuous. Shell margin outside the pallial line finely and evenly crenulate.
REMARKS
Lucina crosseana Issel, 1869 (p. 255, pl. 3, fig. 3) described from Pleistocene deposits of the Red Sea is possibly an earlier name for this species, but the type material has not been located. Zuschin & Oliver (2003: 109, pl. 25, figs 12-15) illustrate Funafutia cf. crosseana from the northern Red Sea. This is very similar to F. levukana but further work is needed to establish if it is conspecific.
FINLAY H. J. 1927. - New specific names for Austral Mollusca. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 488 - 533.
GLOVER E. A. & TAYLOR J. D. 2001. - Systematic revision of Australian and Indo-Pacific Lucinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): Pillucina, Wallucina and descriptions of two new genera and four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 263 - 292.
HEDLEY C. 1899. - The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part II. Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 491 - 510.
ISSEL A. 1869. - Malacologia del Mare Rosso, richerche zoologiche e paleontologiche. Editori della Biblioteca Malacologia, Pisa, 387 p.
SMITH E. A. 1885. - Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger 1873 - 76 13: 1 - 341.
FIG. 34. — Outline drawings of interiors of right valves of Pillucina Pilsbry, 1921, Wallucina Iredale, 1930, Chavania Glover & Taylor, 2001 and Funafutia Glover & Taylor, 2001 species: A, W. fijiensis (Smith, 1885); B, C. striata (Tokunaga, 1906); C, P. pacifica Glover & Taylor, 2001; D, P. copiosa n. sp.; E, F. levukana (Smith, 1885). Not to scale.
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Funafutia levukana ( Smith, 1885 )
Glover, Emily A. & Taylor, John D. 2007 |
Funafutia levukana
GLOVER E. A. & TAYLOR J. D. 2001: 286 |
Lucina funafutica
FINLAY H. J. 1927: 529 |
Lucina (Codakia) oblonga
HEDLEY C. 1899: 497 |
Lucina levukana
SMITH E. A. 1885: 181 |