Subfamily MONITILORINAE Taylor & Glover, 2011

REMARKS

This subfamily was introduced for subcircular lucinids with closely spaced commarginal lamellae and fine radial ribs in the interspaces. The single species included in molecular analyses, Monitilora ramsayi (Smith, 1885), forms a separate branch with an unstable position (Taylor et al. 2011, 2014, 2016) but never aligns within any other of the major clades of Lucinidae .