Anodontia (Pegophysema), Stewart, 1930

Glover, Emily A. & Taylor, John D., 2007, Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou, Zoosystema 29 (1), pp. 109-181 : 112

Subgenus Pegophysema Stewart, 1930

TYPE SPECIES. — Lucina schrammi Crosse, 1876 (original designation).

DIAGNOSIS. — As Anodontia , shells large, moderately inflated, thin-shelled, outer surface with prominent, irregular, rounded, commarginal ridges. Ligament internal, shallowly to deeply inset. Anterior adductor scar short,

detached for 70% of length. Pallial line entire, with secondary pallial attachment scars ( Fig. 3 ) extending posteriorly from below anterior adductor scar.

Figures

FIG. 3. — Outline drawings of interiors of right valves of Anodontia Link, 1807 and Leucosphaera Taylor & Glover, 2005 species: A, A. (Pegophysema) philippiana (Reeve, 1850);B, A. (Euanodontia) ovum (Reeve,1850); C, A. (E.) hawaiensis (Dall,Bartsch & Rehder, 1938); D, A. (Cryptophysema) vesicula (Gould, 1850); E, L. diaphana n. sp. Not to scale.