Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Lucina (Linga), Phacoides (Linga)
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to E. J. Moore 1988
See also Abbott 1974, Cox et al. 1969, Freneix et al. 1988, Gardner 1947, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Vredenburg 1928 and Woodring 1925
Sister taxa: Callucina, Callucinopsis, Cavilucina, Epilucina, Hadralucina, Here, Loripes, Lucina, Luciniola, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Linga (Bellucina) Linga (Cavilinga) Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia Linga (Illesca) Linga (Linga) Linga (Pleurolucina) Phacoides (Linga) browni Phacoides (Linga) kovatchevi Phacoides (Linga) podagrinus Phacoides (Linga) tithonis
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Panama (1 collection), the Philippines (1), Spain (2), United States (7: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), India (1), Jamaica (4), Panama (2), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Australia (5), Austria (1), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (4), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Greece (2), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1), Panama (5), Poland (2), Slovakia (3), United States (4: Florida)
• Oligocene of Hungary (2), Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), Peru (1), United States (46: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 121 collections including 144 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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