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Politoleda Hertlein & Strong, 1940 
AphiaID: 600464

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Nuculanoida (Order) > Nuculanoidea (Superfamily) > Nuculanidae (Family) > Nuculaninae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Nucula polita G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (type by original designation)
Parent Nuculaninae H. Adams &. A. Adams, 1858 (1854)
Synonymised
taxa
  Nuculana (Politoleda) Hertlein & Strong, 1940
Sources  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]

basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

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 Species Politoleda polita (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:600464
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2012-06-20 11:34:27Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Politoleda Hertlein & Strong, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=600464 on 2013-06-19
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