New lucinid bivalves from shallow and deeper water of the Indian and West Pacific Oceans (Mollusca,Bivalvia, Lucinidae) |
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Authors: | John D Taylor Emily A Glover |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK |
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Abstract: | 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 new species Scabrilucina melvilli from the Torres Strait off northeastern Australia. Ferrocina brunei new species (Lucininae) was recovered from 60 m near oil drilling activities off Borneo; its anatomy confirmed the presence of symbiotic bacteria. Two unusual deeper water species of Leucosphaerinae are described, both species included in on-going molecular analyses; Gonimyrtea ferruginea from 400–650 m in the southwest Pacific and Myrtina reflexa from 200–825 m off Zanzibar and Madagascar. |
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Keywords: | Bivalvia Lucinidae chemosymbiosis taxonomy new species deep water Indo-West Pacific |
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