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Nucula  Lamarck, 1799
Taxonomic Serial No.: 79126

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 1999   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassProtobranchia Pelseneer, 1889  
                      OrderNuculida Dall, 1889  
                         SuperfamilyNuculoidea Gray, 1824  
                            FamilyNuculidae Gray, 1824  
                               GenusNucula Lamarck, 1799  
    Direct Children:  
                                  SpeciesNucula aegeensis Jeffreys, 1879 – Aegean nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula annulata Hampson, 1971  
                                  SpeciesNucula atacellana Schenck, 1939 – cancellate nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula calcicola Moore, 1977 – reef nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula cancellata Meek and Hayden, 1856  
                                  SpeciesNucula cardara Dall, 1916  
                                  SpeciesNucula carlottensis Dall, 1897 – Charlotte nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula chrysocome   
                                  SpeciesNucula crenulata A. Adams, 1856 – crenulate nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula cymella Dall, 1886  
                                  SpeciesNucula darella Dall, 1916  
                                  SpeciesNucula delphinodonta Mighels and C. B. Adams, 1842 – dolphintooth nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula exigua G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 – short nutclam, iridescent nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula fernandinae Dall, 1927  
                                  SpeciesNucula granulosa Verrill, 1884  
                                  SpeciesNucula groenlandica Posselt, 1898 – Greenland nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula hanleyi   
                                  SpeciesNucula nitidosa Winckworth, 1930  
                                  SpeciesNucula nucleus Linnaeus, 1758  
                                  SpeciesNucula proxima Say, 1822 – Atlantic nutclam 
                                  SpeciesNucula subovata Verrill and Bush, 1898  
                                  SpeciesNucula sulcata Bronn, 1831  
                                  SpeciesNucula tumidula (Malm, 1860)  
                                  SpeciesNucula turgida   
                                  SpeciesNucula zophos A. H. Clark, 1960  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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