Nucula
Nucula Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent | |
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A whole shell of Nucula nucleus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Nuculoida |
Family: | Nuculidae |
Genus: | Nucula Lamarck, 1799 |
Species | |
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Nucula is a genus of very small saltwater clams. They are part of the family Nuculidae.
Species
Species within the genus Nucula include:
- Nucula aegeensis Jeffreys, 1879 - Aegean nutclam
- Nucula annulata Hampson, 1971
- Nucula atacellana Schenck, 1939 - cancellate nutclam
- Nucula calcicola Moore, 1977 - reef nutclam
- Nucula cancellata Meek & Hayden, 1856
- Nucula cardara Dall, 1916
- Nucula carlottensis Dall, 1897 - Charlotte nutclam
- Nucula certisinus Finlay, 1930
- Nucula chrysocome
- Nucula crenulata A. Adams, 1856 - crenulate nutclam
- Nucula cymella Dall, 1886
- Nucula darella Dall, 1916
- Nucula delphinodonta Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842 - dolphintooth nutclam
- Nucula dunedinensis Finlay, 1928
- Nucula exigua G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 - iridescent nutclam, short nutclam
- Nucula fernandinae Dall, 1927
- Nucula gallinacea Finlay, 1930
- Nucula granulosa Verrill, 1884
- Nucula groenlandica Posselt, 1898 - Greenland nutclam
- Nucula hanleyi Winckworth, 1931
- Nucula hartvigiana Pfeiffer, 1864
- Nucula nitidosa Winckworth, 1930 (unaccepted name: Nucula turgida Leckenby & Marshall, 1875)
- Nucula nitidula A. Adams, 1856
- Nucula nitidulaformis Powell, 1971
- Nucula nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Nucula percrassa (Conrad, 1858 )
- Nucula proxima Say, 1822 - Atlantic nutclam
- Nucula recens Dell, 1956
- Nucula rossiana Finlay, 1930
- Nucula subovata Verrill & Bush, 1898
- Nucula sulcata Bronn, 1831
- Nucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808)
- Nucula tumidula (Malm, 1860)
- Nucula zophos A. H. Clark, 1960
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References
- "Nucula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1