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Ennucula nuculana

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Taxonomy
Tellina (Moerella) nuculana was named by Dall (1909). Its type specimen is USNM 3529a, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Tellina nuculana by Weaver (1942); it was recombined as Nucula (Ennucula) nuculana by Moore (1963); it was recombined as Ennucula nuculana by Hendy (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. greyi, E. nipponica

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Tellina (Moerella) nuculana Dall pp. 125-126 figs. pl. 18, fig. 2
1916Nucula washingtonensis Weaver p. 34 figs. pl. 3, figs. 27, 28, 29
1931Nucula washingtonensis Etherington p. 64 figs. Plate 1, figures 10, 11, 12
1942Tellina nuculana Weaver pp. 205-206
1963Nucula (Ennucula) nuculana Moore pp. 52 - 53 figs. Plate 11, figures 2, 5, 10; plate 12, figure 1
2020Ennucula nuculana Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
—Eubivalvia
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculiformiiDall 1889
orderNuculida(Dall 1889)
superfamilyNuculoidea(Gray 1824)
familyNuculidaeGray 1824
genusEnnuculaIredale 1931
speciesnuculana(Dall 1909)

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.

†Ennucula nuculana Dall 1909
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Invalid names: Nucula washingtonensis Weaver 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10f
Thickness: thinf
Folds: nonef
Ribbing: minorf
Spines: nonef
Internal reinforcement: nonef
Ontogeny: accretionf
Environment: coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanicf
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Life habit: infaunalf
Diet: deposit feederf
Diet 2: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Created: 2008-11-15 10:09:53
Modified: 2009-08-18 20:13:53
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97USA (California) Nucula washingtonensis (167645)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97USA (Oregon) Nucula nuculana (39805)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82USA (Oregon) Nucula nuculana (39799 39804) Nuculana nuculana (39807)