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Taxonomy
Nucula exigua was named by Sowerby (1833) [DISTRIBUTION: California-Zorritos, Peru (Recent); California (Pleistocene).]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Nucula (Nucula) exigua by Grant, IV and Gale (1931), Keen (1971) and Woodring (1973); it was recombined as Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua by Hertlein and Grant (1972), Moore (1983), Coan et al. (2000), Huber (2010), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012) and Hendy (2021).
It was recombined as Nucula (Nucula) exigua by Grant, IV and Gale (1931), Keen (1971) and Woodring (1973); it was recombined as Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua by Hertlein and Grant (1972), Moore (1983), Coan et al. (2000), Huber (2010), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012) and Hendy (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
N. angusta, N. calliope, N. cipleyensis, N. ciplyensis, N. cochlear, N. dasa, N. defuniak, N. dixoni, N. fritschi, N. guillermensis, N. indica, N. meadinga, N. microconcentrica, N. otamatea, N. percrassa, N. potomacensis, N. praelongata, N. pulchra, N. rivulana, N. sagittata, N. stachei, N. subtrigona, N. silicea, N. mametschinskensis, N. planata, N. aptera, N. waiaotea, N. waiotea, N. eudorae
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1833 | Nucula exigua Sowerby fig. 24 |
| 1856 | Nucula paytensis Adams p. 51 |
| 1903 | Nucula suprastriata Arnold p. 96 |
| 1931 | Nucula (Nucula) exigua Grant, IV and Gale |
| 1971 | Nucula (Nucula) exigua Keen p. 26 |
| 1972 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Hertlein and Grant p. 146 |
| 1973 | Nucula (Nucula) exigua Woodring p. 488 |
| 1983 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Moore p. A8 figs. Plate 1, figure 13 |
| 2000 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Coan et al. p. 74 |
| 2010 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Huber p. 87 |
| 2012 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 43 |
| 2021 | Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Hendy |
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Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua Sowerby 1833
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Invalid names: Nucula paytensis Adams 1856 [synonym], Nucula suprastriata Arnold 1903 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available