WoRMS taxon details
Nuculidae Gray, 1824
AphiaID: 204
AphiaID: 204
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Nuculida (Order) > Nuculoidea (Superfamily) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Nuculoidea | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nuculominae Maxwell, 1988 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
redescription: Mikkelsen P.M. & Bieler R. (2008) Seashells of Southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions. Bivalves. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 503 pp. [details] redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] status source: 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. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Acila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 Genus Austronucula Powell, 1939 Genus Brevinucula Thiele, 1934 Genus Condylonucula D. R. Moore, 1977 Genus Ennucula Iredale, 1931 Genus Leionucula Quenstedt, 1930 † Genus Linucula Marwick, 1931 Genus Neonucula Lan & Lee, 2001 Genus Nucula Lamarck, 1799 Genus Nuculoidea H. S. Williams & Breger, 1916 Genus Pronucula Hedley, 1902 Genus Sinonucula Xu, 1985 Genus Varinucula Maxwell, 1988 Genus Lamellinucula Schenck, 1944 accepted as Nucula (Lamellinucula) Schenck, 1944 represented as Nucula Lamarck, 1799 Genus Leinonucula Quenstedt, 1930 accepted as Ennucula Iredale, 1931 Genus Lionucula Thiele, 1934 accepted as Ennucula Iredale, 1931 Genus Nuculoma Cossmann, 1907 accepted as Ennucula Iredale, 1931 Subfamily Nuculominae Maxwell, 1988 accepted as Nuculidae Gray, 1824 Genus Polyodonta Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 accepted as Nucula Lamarck, 1799 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Nuculidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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