Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculanida > Superfamily Nuculanoidea > Family Yoldiidae > Subfamily Yoldiinae

Yoldia Møller, 1842

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Yoldia hyperborea (A. Gould, 1841)
Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831)

Literature

original description	Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4(1): 76-97.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp.
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.
subsequent type designation	ICZN. (1966). Opinion 769. Yoldia Möller, 1842, and Portlandia Mörch, 1857: Designation of type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21 (2): 97-100.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Yoldia Møller, 1842. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138672