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Acila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 
AphiaID: 492055

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Nuculida (Order) > Nuculoidea (Superfamily) > Nuculidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Nucula divaricata Hinds, 1843 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Nuculidae Gray, 1824
Synonymised
taxa		  Acila (Acila) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
 Acila (Truncacila) Schenck in Grant & Gale, 1931
Sources  basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [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]

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taxa
[hide all]		 Species Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843)
Species Acila divaricata (Hinds, 1843)
  » Subspecies Acila divaricata balabacensis Schenck, 1936 accepted as Acila divaricata (Hinds, 1843)
» Subspecies Acila divaricata submirabilis Schenck, 1936 accepted as Acila mirabilis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
» Variety Acila divaricata var. vigilia Schenck, 1936 accepted as Acila vigilia Schenck, 1936
Species Acila fultoni (E. A. Smith, 1892)
Species Acila granulata (E. A. Smith, 1906)
Species Acila insignis (Gould, 1861)
Species Acila jucunda (Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931)
Species Acila minutoides Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1958
Species Acila mirabilis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Acila vigilia Schenck, 1936

Subgenus Acila (Acila) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 represented as Acila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (alternate representation)
Subgenus Acila (Truncacila) Schenck in Grant & Gale, 1931 represented as Acila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (alternate representation)
  » Species Acila (Truncacila) castrensis (Hinds, 1843) represented as Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843) (alternate representation)

Species Acila archibenthalis Okutani, 1964 accepted as Acila mirabilis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Acila beringiana Slodkevich, 1967 accepted as Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843)
Species Acila empirensis Howe, 1922 accepted as Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843)
Species Acila schencki Habe, 1958 accepted as Acila mirabilis (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492055
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-07-27 11:48:36Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-10-09 17:37:21Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-06-18 20:41:14Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Acila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492055 on 2013-05-18
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