Cumingia

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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Veneroida
Superfamily:	Tellinoidea
Family:	Semelidae
Genus:	Cumingia; G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
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);

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.

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.

References

^ 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

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