Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculida > Superfamily Nuculoidea > Family Nuculidae

Nucula Lamarck, 1799

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nucula (Nucula)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Nucula atacellana Schenck, 1939
Nucula hanleyi Winckworth, 1931
Nucula nitidosa Winckworth, 1930
Nucula nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Nucula rugulosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833
Nucula sulcata Bronn, 1831
Nucula tumidula Malm, 1861

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): nøtteskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: nøtteskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: nøtteskjell

Norwegian Nynorsk: nøtteskjel

Nynorsk (Norwegian): nøtteskjel

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
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.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Nucula Lamarck, 1799. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138262