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Portlandia glacialis

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae

Taxonomy
Nucula glacialis was named by Wood (1828) [DISTRIBUTION: Arctic (Recent); Newfoundland-Vermont (Pleistocene)]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis by Richards (1962); it was recombined as Portlandia glacialis by Hendy et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. sanchuensis, P. sphaerica, P. carolimartini, Yoldia siliqua

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Nucula glacialis Wood p. 45
1962Yoldia (Portlandia) glacialis Richards p. 52
2008Portlandia glacialis Hendy et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
RankNameAuthor
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculaniformiiCarter et al. 2000
orderNuculanida(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamilyNuculanoideaAdams and Adams 1858
familySareptidaeAdams 1860
subfamilyYoldiinae(Dall 1908)
genusPortlandiaMörch 1857
speciesglacialis(Wood 1828)

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.

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Diagnosis
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