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

Nucula tumidula Malm, 1861

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nucula*	Lamarck, 1799	accepted genus name
*Deminucula*	Iredale, 1931	synonym
*Nucula (Deminucula)*	Iredale, 1931	synonym
*Nucula (Nucula)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym

Species group names

*Nucula pumila*	Sars, 1851	synonym
*Nucula umbonata*	G. Seguenza, 1876	synonym

Literature

original description	Malm, A.W. (1861). Om flere for den skandinaviske Fauna nye Fiske, Krebsdyr og Bløddyr. [About more for the Scandinavian Fauna new Fish, Crustacea and Molluscs.]. Forhandlinger ved de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres ottende Mode, Kiobenhavn, I Commission I den Gyldendalske Boghandling. 8: 616-624. [for 1860].
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	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nucula tumidula Malm, 1861. 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:140593