Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > 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

*Deminucula*	Iredale, 1931	synonym
*Nucula (Deminucula)*	Iredale, 1931	synonym; alternate representation
*Nucula (Nucula)*	Lamarck, 1799	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Nucula acuminata Eichwald, 1830
Nucula atacellana Schenck, 1939
Nucula callicredemna Dall, 1890
Nucula hanleyi Winckworth, 1931
Nucula nitidosa Winckworth, 1930
Nucula nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Nucula sulcata Bronn, 1831
Nucula tumidula Malm, 1861
Nucula turgida A. Gould, 1846

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: nut clams; nutclams sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Nussmuscheln sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

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

Norwegian Nynorsk: nøtteskjel

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91.
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.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nucula Lamarck, 1799. 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:138262