Nuculanidae
Appearance
Nuculanidae Temporal range: Permian to Present
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Three shells of Nuculana minuta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Nuculanida |
Superfamily: | Nuculanoidea |
Family: | Nuculanidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 |
Genera | |
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Nuculanidae is a family of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Nuculanida. Species in this family are found in all seas, from shallow to deep water.
Genera and species
[edit]Genera and species within the family Nuculanidae include:
- Acutispinula
- Acutispinula hilleri (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
- Acutispinula scheltemai (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
- Adrana H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
- Jupiteria
- Jupiteria manawatawhia Powell, 1937)
- Jupiteria wolffi Dell, 1956
- Jupiteria zealedaformis Dell, 1953
- Ledella
- Ledella aberrata Allen & Sanders, 1996
- Ledella finlayi Powell, 1935
- Ledella herdmani Dell, 1953
- Ledella jamesi Allen & Hannah, 1989
- Ledella librata Dell, 1952
- Ledella pustulosa Allen & Hannah, 1989
- † Ledella rhomboidea (May, 1922)
- Ledella sublevis A. E. Verrill & Bush, 1898
- Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Lembulus Link, 1807
- Lembulus pellus (Linnaeus, 1767)
- 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)
- Nuculana 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 sufficientia Poppe & Tagaro, 2016
- 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
- Poroleda
- Poroleda lanceolata (Hutton, 1885)
- Saccella
- Scissuladrana
- Scissuladrana ludmillae Petuch, 1987
- Thestyleda
- Thestyleda investigator Dell, 1952)
- Thestyleda louiseae (Clarke, 1962)
- Tindariopsis
- Tindariopsis sulculata (‘Couthouy’ Gould, 1852)
Fossil taxa:
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nuculanidae.
- "Nuculanidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1