Description: Lucina pensylvanica (Linnaeus, 1758) - interior of a left valve of the Pennsylvania lucine, 1.85 cm across at its widest. Family Lucinidae (Silurian to Holocene) - the lucine clams are infaunal, filter feeding bivalves occupying a variety of substrate types in marine to estuarine settings, including extremophile environments (e.g., anoxia, hydrothermal seafloor vents, cold seeps). Date: 5 March 2011, 00:46. Source:
Lucina pensylvanica (Pennsylvania lucine clam) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author:
James St. John.
