Nuculanidae

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Nuculanidae
Fossil range: Permian to Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculoida
Family: Nuculanidae
Meek, 1864
Genera

See text.

Nuculanidae is a family of small bivalve molluscs in the order Nuculoida.

They have transversely elongated shells, usually rostrate at the posterior end. The interior is white or porcellanous, never nacreous. The hinge has an anterior and a posterior series of small, narrow, vertical, straight or chevron-shaped teeth, divided under the beaks by a small ligament pit.

Nuculanidae species are found in all seas, from shallow to deep water.

[edit] Taxonomy

  • Acutispinula
    • Acutispinula hilleri (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
    • Acutispinula scheltemai (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
  • Adrana
    • Adrana egregia (Guppy, 1882)
    • Adrana electa (A. Adams, 1846)
    • Adrana elizabethae Ortea & Espinosa, 2001
    • Adrana gloriosa (A. Adams, 1855)
    • Adrana patagonica (d’Orbigny, 1846)
    • Adrana scaphoides Rehder, 1939
    • Adrana tellinoides G. B. Sowerby I, 1823
  • Ledella
    • Ledella aberrata Allen & Sanders, 1996
    • Ledella jamesi Allen & Hannah, 1989
    • Ledella pustulosa Allen & Hannah, 1989
    • Ledella sublevis A. E. Verrill & Bush, 1898
    • Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Nuculana
    • Nuculana acuta (Conrad, 1832)
    • Nuculana aspecta (Dall, 1927)
    • Nuculana bipennis (Dall, 1927)
    • Nuculana bushiana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
    • Nuculana caudata (Donovan, 1801)
    • Nuculana cestrota (Dall, 1890)
    • Nuculana concentrica (Say, 1824)
    • Nucula eborea Conrad, 1848
    • Nuculana fortiana Esteves, 1984
    • Nuculana hebes (E. A. Smith, 1885)
    • Nuculana inaequisculpta Lamy, 1906
    • Nuculana jamaicensis (d’Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
    • Nuculana kalmartini Weisbord, 1964
    • Nuculana larranagai Klappenbach & Scarabino, 1969
    • Nuculana marella Weisbord, 1964
    • Nuculana minuta (O. F. Müller, 1776)
    • Nuculana orixa (Dall, 1927)
    • Nuculana parva (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
    • Nuculana pernula (Müller, 1779)
    • Nuculana platessa (Dall, 1890)
    • Nuculana pusio (Philippi, 1844)
    • Nuculana rhytida Dall, 1908
    • Nuculana semen (E. A. Smith, 1885)
    • Nuculana solidifacta (Dall, 1886)
    • Nuculana solidula (E. A. Smith, 1885)
    • Nuculana taphria (Dall, 1898)
    • Nuculana tenuisulcata (Couthouy, 1838)
    • Nuculana verrilliana (Dall, 1886)
    • Nuculana vitrea (d’Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
    • Nuculana vulgaris Pilsbry & Brown, 1913
    • Nuculana whitensis Farinati, 1978
  • Propeleda
    • Propeleda carpenteri (Dall, 1881)
    • Propeleda longicaudata Thiele, 1912
  • Scissuladrana
    • Scissuladrana ludmillae Petuch, 1987
  • Thestyleda
    • Thestyleda louiseae (Clarke, 1962)
  • Tindariopsis
    • Tindariopsis sulculata (‘Couthouy’ Gould, 1852)

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