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Divalinga

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2287386	https://www.gbif.org/species/2287386
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17583	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17583

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Divalinga

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Divalinga

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida
superfamily	Lucinoidea	Fleming 1828
family	Lucinidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Divalinga	Chavan 1951

Scientific Name

Divalinga Chavan, 1951

Name Published In

Bull. Inst. Sci. Nat. Belg., 27, (18)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Divalinga	genus	belongs to Divaricellinae	stated with evidence	Cox et al., 1969
Divalinga	subgenus	belongs to Divaricella	stated without evidence	Bretsky, 1976
Divalinga	genus	belongs to Divaricellinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Divalinga	subgenus	belongs to Divaricella	stated without evidence	Dockery, 1982
Divalinga	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Divalinga	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

chemosymbiotic

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, DC according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Lucinidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Divalinga (Divalinga) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Divalinga (Stchepinskya) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Divalinga arabica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga bardwelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga chavani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Divalinga dalliana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga eburnea species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Divalinga perparvula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga quadrisulcata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		62	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Divalinga sechellensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga strigilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga subrigaultiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divalinga weberi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Divaricella (Divalinga) subrigaultiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Lucina rigaultiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lucina subrigaultiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cyclas Mörch, 1853	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : *Cyclas*
Viaderella Chavan, 1951	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : *Viaderella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1951	Divalinga Chavan
1969	Divalinga Cox et al. p. 506
1976	Divaricella (Divalinga) Bretsky p. 309
1980	Divalinga Vokes p. 104
1982	Divaricella (Divalinga) Dockery p. 60
1987	Divalinga Ward and Blackwelder p. 130
1994	Divalinga Dekker and Gould
1995	Divalinga Pacaud and Le Renard
2002	Divalinga Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Cox L. R., Newell N. D., et al (1969) Mollusca 6: Bivalvia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1 N, N491-N952

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Dockery D. T. (1982) Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123, 1-261

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Dekker H., Gould J. (1994) Review of the living Indo-West-Pacific species of Divaricella sensu auct; with descriptions of two new species and a summary of the species, Vita Marina 42 4, 115-135

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Taylor J.D. & Glover E.A. (2016). Lucinid bivalves of Guadeloupe: diversity and systematics in the context of the tropical Western Atlantic (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Zootaxa. 4196(3): 301-380. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Bull. Inst. Sci. Nat. Belg., 27, (18) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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