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Yoldia

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Taxonomy
Yoldia was named by Möller (1842) [Sepkoski's age data: K Maes R Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It is extant. Its type is Nucula arctica.

It was reranked as Leda (Yoldia) by Dall (1889).

It was assigned to Leda by Dall (1889); to Ledidae by Glenn (1904), Clark and Arnold (1923), Nagao (1928), Nagao (1928) and Russell and Landes (1937); to Yoldinae by Lintz (1958); to Sareptidae by Todd (2001); to Nuculoida by Sepkoski (2002); to Nuculanidae by Grant, IV and Gale (1931), Durham (1944), Faustman (1964), Skwarko (1967), Hayami (1975), Moore (1976), Vokes (1980), Dockery (1982), Moore (1983), Lamprell and Healy (1998), Wienrich (1999) and Spencer et al. (2004); to Yoldiinae by Coan et al. (2000) and Bouchet et al. (2010); and to Yoldiidae by Beu and Taviani (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Yoldia Möller p. 18
1889Leda (Yoldia) Dall
1904Yoldia Glenn p. 395
1923Yoldia Clark and Arnold p. 137
1928Yoldia Nagao p. 23
1931Yoldia Grant, IV and Gale p. 126
1937Yoldia Russell and Landes p. 133
1944Yoldia Durham p. 135
1958Yoldia Lintz p. 109
1964Yoldia Faustman p. 114
1967Yoldia Skwarko p. 15
1975Yoldia Hayami
1976Yoldia Moore p. 44
1980Yoldia Vokes p. 7
1982Yoldia Dockery p. 28
1983Yoldia Moore p. A23
1998Yoldia Lamprell and Healy p. 42
1999Yoldia Wienrich p. 211
2000Yoldia Coan et al. p. 109
2001Yoldia Todd
2002Yoldia Sepkoski
2004Yoldia Spencer et al.
2010Yoldia Bouchet et al.
2013Yoldia Beu and Taviani p. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
Eubivalvia
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculaniformiiCarter et al. 2000
orderNuculanida(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamilyNuculanoideaAdams and Adams 1858
familyYoldiidaeHabe 1977
genusYoldiaMöller 1842

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.

G. Yoldia Möller 1842
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Subg. Yoldia (Cnesterium) Dall 1898
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Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica Valenciennes 1846
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Invalid names: Yoldia scissurata Dall 1897 [synonym], Yoldia seminuda Dall 1871 [synonym]
Yoldia (Cnesterium) rekinnensis Sinelnikova 1990
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Invalid names: Yoldia subalta Kristofovich 1984 [synonym]
Yoldia (Cnesterium) yamagatana Nomura and Zinbo 1937
Subg. †Yoldia (Mirayoldia) Kristofovich 1973
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Subg. †Yoldia (Nampiella) Kafanov and Savizky 1995
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Invalid names: Yoldia elliptica Kristofovich 1984 [synonym]
Yoldia (Nampiella) takaradaiensis Kristofovich 1957
Yoldia (Nampiella) tigilensis Slodkewitsch 1938
Subg. †Yoldia (Sachalinella) Savitskii 1969
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Subg. Yoldia (Yoldia) Moeller 1842
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Yoldia (Yoldia) biremis Uozumi 1957
Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima von Münster 1837
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Invalid names: Yoldia amygdalea Valenciennes 1846 [synonym], Yoldia bartschi Scarlato 1981 [synonym], Yoldia gardneri Oldroyd 1935 [synonym], Yoldia norvegica Dautzenberg and Fischer 1912 [synonym]
Yoldia (Yoldia) makarovi Evseev 1964
Yoldia (Yoldia) myalis Couthouy 1838
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Invalid names: Nucula cascoensis Mighels and Adams 1842 [synonym], Yoldia vancouverensis Smith 1880 [synonym]
Yoldia (Yoldia) rostriformis Gladenkov 1984
Yoldia (Yoldia) saitoi Uozumi 1957
Yoldia (Yoldia) similis Kuroda and Habe 1952
Yoldia (Yoldia) temblorensis Anderson and Martin 1914
Yoldia (Yoldia) vengeriana Kristofovich 1959
Yoldia blakeleyensis Durham 1944
Yoldia bocasensis Olsson 1922
Yoldia clydoniona Dockery 1982
Yoldia cooperii Gabb 1865
Yoldia cupressensis Russell and Landes 1937
Yoldia dowlingi Russell and Landes 1937
Yoldia duprei Weaver and Palmer 1922
Yoldia evansi Meek and Hayden 1857
Yoldia freytagi Ludbrook 1966
Yoldia gala Woodring and Bramlette 1950
Yoldia gladenkovi Marincovich, Jr. 1993
Yoldia hikoshimensis Hirayama 1956
Yoldia impressa Conrad 1849
Yoldia inaequisculpta Lamy 1906
Yoldia kermadecensis Knudson 1970
Yoldia kissoumi McLearn 1933
Yoldia laevis Say 1824
Yoldia limatula Say 1831
Yoldia mater Meyer 1885
Yoldia mcconnelli Russell and Landes 1937
Yoldia nasuta Gabb 1864
Yoldia newcombi Anderson and Martin 1914
Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814
Yoldia olympiana Clark 1925
Yoldia peninsularis Anelli et al. 2006
Yoldia pisciformis Brown and Pilsbry 1917
Yoldia sagittalia Yokoyama 1925
Yoldia sammamishensis Weaver 1912
Yoldia sapotilla Gould 1841
Yoldia scaphoides Nagao 1928
Yoldia serica Conrad 1848
Yoldia subscitula Meek and Hayden 1858
Yoldia supramontereyana Arnold 1908
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available