Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae Temporal range: Permian to Present
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Three shells of Nuculana minuta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Nuculanida |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | Nuculanidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 |
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Nuculanidae is a family of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Nuculanida. Species in this family are found in all seas, from shallow to deep water.
Genera and species[]
Genera and species within the family Nuculanidae include:
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- (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
- (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
- Adrana H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
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- Allen & Sanders, 1996
- Powell, 1935
- Dell, 1953
- Allen & Hannah, 1989
- Dell, 1952
- Allen & Hannah, 1989
- A. E. Verrill & Bush, 1898
- (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Link, 1807
- (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Nuculana
- Nuculana acuta (Conrad, 1832)
- (Dall, 1927)
- (Dall, 1927)
- (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
- (Donovan, 1801)
- (Dall, 1890)
- Nuculana concentrica (Say, 1824)
- Conrad, 1848
- Esteves, 1984
- (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Lamy, 1906
- (d’Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
- Weisbord, 1964
- Klappenbach & Scarabino, 1969
- Weisbord, 1964
- Nuculana minuta (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- (Dall, 1927)
- (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Nuculana pernula (Müller, 1779)
- (Dall, 1890)
- (Philippi, 1844)
- Dall, 1908
- (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- (Dall, 1886)
- (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Nuculana sufficientia Poppe & Tagaro, 2016
- (Dall, 1898)
- Nuculana tenuisulcata (Couthouy, 1838)
- (Dall, 1886)
- (d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
- Pilsbry & Brown, 1913
- Farinati, 1978
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- (Hutton, 1885)
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- (A. Adams, 1856)
- (Fleming, 1951)
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- Petuch, 1987
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- Dell, 1952)
- (Clarke, 1962)
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- (‘Couthouy’ Gould, 1852)
Fossil taxa:
- Dacromya
References[]
- "Nuculanidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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Categories:
- Nuculanidae
- Bivalve families
- Extant Permian first appearances