Nuculidae

Nuculidae is a family of small saltwater clams in the order Nuculida. Species in this family are commonly known as nut clams.[1]

Nuculidae
Temporal range: Paleozoic to Present
Two views of a left valve of Acila cobboldiae from the early Pleistocene of the Netherlands
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculida
Superfamily: Nuculoidea
Family: Nuculidae
Gray, 1824
Genera

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The nomenclature of the Western European species in this family is still uncertain. Their systematics has been based mainly on their feces.[2]

Genera
  • Acila H. Adams and A. Adams, 1858
  • Adrana Adams and Adams, 1858
  • Austronucula Powell, 1939
  • Brevinucula Thiele, 1934
  • Condylonucula D.R. Moore, 1977
  • Ennucula Iredale, 1931
  • Lamellinucula Schenck, 1944
  • Leionucula Quenstedt, 1930 †
  • Linucula Marwick, 1931
  • Neonucula Lan & Lee, 2001
  • Nucula Lamarck, 1799
  • Pronucula Hedley, 1902
  • Sinonucula Xu, 1985
Genera brought into synonymy
  • Lionucula Thiele, 1934 synonym of Ennucula Iredale, 1931
  • Nuculoma Cossmann, 1907 : synonym of Ennucula Iredale, 1931
  • Polyodonta Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 : synonym of Nucula Lamarck, 1799

References
  1. Mikkelsen, Paula M. (2008). Seashells of southern Florida : living marine mollusks of the Florida keys and adjacent regions, bivalves. Rüdiger Bieler. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11606-8. OCLC 78071775.
  2. WoRMS (2011). Nuculidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204 on 2011-05-04
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Bieler R. & Mikkelsen P. 2006. Bivalvia – a look at the Branches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 148, 223–235
  • Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. pp. 113–133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca
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