Nucula
creator: Gofas, Serge
creator: Bouchet, Philippe
creator: Marshall, Bruce
date: 2026-08-29
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Nucula Lamarck, 1799
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Nucula Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138262 on 2026-08-29
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2021-12-12T22:57:08Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Nucula Lamarck, 1799
class: Bivalvia
family: Nuculidae
genus: Nucula
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91.
name published in: Bergmans, W. (1978). Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum. 31(17): 673-736.
name published in: Eames, F. E. (1951). A Contribution to the Study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India B. The Description of the Lamellibranchia from Standard Sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zinda Pir Areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 235(627):311-482.
name published in: Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. Records of the Australian Museum. 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931].
name published in: Schenck H.G. (1944). Lamellinucula, a new subgenus of nuculid pelecypods. Journal of Paleontology. 18(1): 97-99.
name published in: Woodring, W. P. (1925). Miocene mollusks from Bowden Jamaica. Pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 366: 1-222, pls. 1-28.
name published in year: 1799
name published in year: 1978
name published in year: 1951
name published in year: 1931
name published in year: 1944
name published in year: 1925
order: Nuculida
parent name usage ID: 204
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: Lamarck, 1799
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted