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

Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Yoldia*	Møller, 1842	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Nucula limatula*	Say, 1831	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gladde snavelteut sources: Fabrice, A.; Kerckhof, F. (2020). De Gladde snavelneut Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831), een nieuwe geïntroduceerde soort in de Belgische mariene fauna. De Strandvlo. 40(3): 88-93.

English: file yoldia sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: amande de mer sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

Japanese: ツヤソデガイ

Literature

basis of record	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Drew G.A. (1899). Some observations on the habits anatomy and embryology of members of the Protobranchia. Anatomische Anzeiger. 15 (24): 493-519.
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
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. Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831). 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:157005