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Cadella nuculoides (salmon tellin)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Taxonomy
Donax nuculoides was named by Reeve (1854). It is extant.

It was recombined as Tellina (Cadella) nuculoides by Coan et al. (2000), Moore (2003); it was recombined as Cadella nuculoides by Hendy (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. lubrica

Synonyms
  • Maera salmonea was named by Carpenter (1864). It is a 3D body fossil.

    It was recombined as Moerella salmonea by Arnold (1903); it was recombined as Tellina salmonea by Packard (1918); it was recombined as Tellina (Cadella) salmonea by Hertlein and Grant (1972); it was synonymized subjectively with Tellina (Cadella) nuculoides by Coan et al. (2000), Moore (2003); it was synonymized subjectively with Cadella nuculoides by Hendy (2021).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Donax nuculoides Reeve figs. pl. 8
1864Maera salmonea Carpenter p. 627
1903Moerella salmonea Arnold
1918Tellina salmonea Packard p. 276 figs. pl. 25, figs. 3a-b
1972Tellina (Cadella) salmonea Hertlein and Grant
2000Tellina (Cadella) nuculoides Coan et al. p. 403
2003Tellina (Cadella) nuculoides Moore
2021Cadella nuculoides Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
—CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
RankNameAuthor
—CardioniFerussac 1822
—CardiidiaFerussac 1822
—CardiataFerussac 1822
superorderCardiiformiiFerussac 1822
orderCardiidaFerussac 1822
suborderCardiidinaFerussac 1822
—CardioideiFerussac 1822
superfamilyTellinoidea(Blainville 1814)
familyTellinidaeBlainville 1814
genusCadellaLinnaeus 1758
speciesnuculoides(Reeve 1854)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Cadella nuculoides Reeve 1854 [salmon tellin]
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Invalid names: Maera salmonea Carpenter 1864 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available