Marine Species Traits - Nuculoidea H. S. Williams & Breger, 1916 †

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Nuculoidea H. S. Williams & Breger, 1916 †

AphiaID

415704 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415704)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cucullea opima J. Hall, 1843 † accepted as Nuculoidea opima (J. Hall, 1843) † (type by original designation)

Parent

Nuculidae J. E. Gray, 1824

Original name

Nuculoidea H. S. Williams & Breger, 1916 †

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Species Nuculoidea corbuliformis (J. Hall & Whitfield, 1869) †
Species Nuculoidea delerensis S.-F. Liang, 1976 †
Species Nuculoidea dianensis F.-X. Guo, 1985 †
Species Nuculoidea lens Liljedahl, 1983 †
Species Nuculoidea lineata (J. Phillips, 1841) † (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, junior homonym of Nucula lineata Goldfuss, 1837)
Species Nuculoidea lirata (Conrad, 1842) †
Species Nuculoidea minuta Pojeta, R.-J. Zhang & Z.-Y. Yang, 1986 †
Species Nuculoidea opima (J. Hall, 1843) †
Species Nuculoidea pinguis (Lindström, 1880) †
Species Nuculoidea yongfuensis Pojeta, R.-J. Zhang & Z.-Y. Yang, 1986 †
Species Nuculoidea bushae (Dollfus, 1898) accepted as Ennucula corbuloides (G. Seguenza, 1877)
Species Nuculoidea pernambucensis (E. A. Smith, 1885) accepted as Ennucula pernambucensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

Williams, H. S.; Breger, C. L. (1916). The fauna of the Chapman sandstone of Maine, including descriptions of some related species from the Moose River sandstone. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. 89: 1-347., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp89
page(s): 173; note: introduced as subgenus of Nucula, but treated as full genus throughout the text [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nuculoidea H. S. Williams & Breger, 1916 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415704 on 2025-05-19

Taxonomic edit history

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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

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Neubauer, Thomas A.

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original description Williams, H. S.; Breger, C. L. (1916). The fauna of the Chapman sandstone of Maine, including descriptions of some related species from the Moose River sandstone. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. 89: 1-347., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp89
page(s): 173; note: introduced as subgenus of Nucula, but treated as full genus throughout the text [details]

basis of record Moore, R. C. (editor). (1969). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. Vol. 1: i-xxxviii, N1-N489. Vol. 2: i-ii, N491-N952. [details]

additional source Klug, C.; Kröger, B.; Rücklin, M.; Korn, D.; Schemm-Gregory, M.; De Baets, K.; Mapes, R. H. (2008). Ecological change during the early Emsian (Devonian in the Tafilalt (Morocco), the origin of the Ammonoidea, and the first African pyrgocystid edrioasteroids, machaerids and phyllocarids. Palaeontographica, Abt. A. 283(4-6): 83-176.
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors

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