Cumingia

For the cactus subgenus, see Weingartia.

Cumingia
3: Cumingia Cleryi [sic] A.Adams = Mulinia byronensis Gray, 1837 4: Cumingia] similis A.Adams = Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837 5: Cumingia striata A.Adams = Cumingia mutica G.B.Sowerby, 1833 6: Cumingia sinuosa A.Adams, 1850 7: Cumingia fragilis A.Adams = Cumingia antillarum A.Adams, 1850
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Cardiida
Superfamily:	Tellinoidea
Family:	Semelidae
Genus:	Cumingia G. B. Sowerby I, 1833[1]
Species
See text.

Cumingia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae. It is also represented in the fossil record.

Cumingia lamellosa is an introduced species in Venezuela.

Species

• Cumingia antillarum A.Adams, 1850
• Cumingia californica Conrad, 1837
• Cumingia coarctata G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
• Cumingia lamellosa (Sowerby, 1833)
• Cumingia mutica G.B.Sowerby, 1833
• Cumingia sinuosa A.Adams, 1850
• Cumingia tellinoides (Conrad, 1831)

Names brought to synonymy

• Cumingia elegans G.B. Sowerby II, 1873 is a synonym for Thyellisca lamellosa (H. Adams, 1873)
• Cumingia parthenopaea Tiberi, 1855 is a synonym for Poromya granulata.

See also

• List of marine molluscs of Venezuela

References

1. New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among islands of the South Pacific Ocean. GB Sowerby - Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1833

• Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 29-40, pl. 8

External links

• Media related to Cumingia at Wikimedia Commons
• "Cumingia". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Cumingia at Catalogue of Life