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Anodontia alba

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Description

Anodontia alba, or the buttercup lucine, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, its range extending from North Carolina in the United States to the West Indies.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodontia_alba, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2287381	https://www.gbif.org/species/2287381
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	94612	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=94612

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : Anodontia alba

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : Anodontia alba

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	Anodontia	Link 1807
species	Anodontia alba	Link 1807

Generic Name

Anodontia

Scientific Name

Anodontia alba Link, 1807

Name Published In

Link, Johann H. F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adler Vol. 3: 101-165.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anodontia alba	species	belongs to Anodontia	stated without evidence	Link, 1807
Anodontia alba	species	belongs to Anodontia	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1982

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Anodontia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

chemosymbiotic (based on Anodontia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Lucinidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, and K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.

Common Name(s)

Butterblumen-mondmuschel, Buttercup Lucine

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodontia_alba

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lucina anatelloides Reeve, 1850	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : *Lucina anatelloides*
Lucina malum Reeve, 1850	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : *Lucina malum*
Lucina chrysostoma Philippi, 1845	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : *Lucina chrysostoma*
Lucina pila Reeve, 1850	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Anodontia : *Lucina pila*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1807	Anodontia alba Link
1845	Lucina chrysostoma Philippi
1921	Lucina chrysostoma Vaughn
1982	Anodontia alba Woodring
2006	Anodontia alba von Cosel p. 836
2018	Anodontia alba Kiel and Taviana

References

Hendy A. J. W., Buick D. P., et al (2008) Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

Woodring W. P. (1982) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 F

von Cosel R. (2006) Taxonomy of tropical West African bivalves. VI. Remarks on Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia), with description of six new genera and eight new species, Zoosystema 28 4, 805-851

Kiel S., Taviana M. (2018) Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the late Pliocene Stirone River hydrocarbon seep complex in northern Italy, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00473.2018

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 Marine Species

Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cole, T. C. H. (2017) Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English: 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp - via Catalogue of Life

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)

Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al., 1988: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16. vii + 277. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Taylor, J. D. & Glover, E. A. (2005). Cryptic diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves: a systematic revision of worldwide Anodontia (Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinidae). Systematics and Biodiversity. 3(3): 281-338. - via World Register of Marine Species

Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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