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Nucula (Lamellinucula)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Taxonomy
Lamellinucula was named by Schenck (1944) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 914. Subgenus of Nucula [Coan et al. 2000]]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Nucula (Lamellinucula) by Eames (1951), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Moore (1983), Zinsmeister (1983), Coan et al. (2000), Todd (2001), Huber (2010), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012) and Hendy (2020).

It was assigned to Nuculoida by Sepkoski (2002); to Nuculidae by Vokes (1980) and Spencer et al. (2004); and to Nucula by Eames (1951), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Moore (1983), Zinsmeister (1983), Coan et al. (2000), Todd (2001), Huber (2010), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012) and Hendy (2020).

Subtaxa
Nucula (Lamellinucula) carlottensis (syn. Nucula (Lamellinucula) keenae, Nucula (Lamellinucula) takashii), Nucula (Lamellinucula) comta (syn. Nucula praemissa, Nucula cilleborgensis), Nucula (Lamellinucula) costacallistiformis, Nucula (Lamellinucula) depressilunulata, Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua (syn. Nucula paytensis, Nucula suprastriata), Nucula (Lamellinucula) hartvigiana, Nucula (Lamellinucula) iphigenia, Nucula (Lamellinucula) jeffreysi, Nucula (Lamellinucula) kennedyi, Nucula (Lamellinucula) minor, Nucula (Lamellinucula) pakistanica, Nucula (Lamellinucula) sculpturata, Nucula (Lamellinucula) semiornata, Nucula (Lamellinucula) soriensis, Nucula (Lamellinucula) tamatavica, Nucula (Lamellinucula) trigonica
Species lacking formal opinion data
Nucula angusta, Nucula aptera, Nucula calliope, Nucula cipleyensis, Nucula ciplyensis, Nucula cochlear, Nucula dasa, Nucula defuniak, Nucula dixoni, Nucula eudorae, Nucula fritschi, Nucula guillermensis, Nucula indica, Nucula mametschinskensis, Nucula meadinga, Nucula microconcentrica, Nucula otamatea, Nucula percrassa, Nucula planata, Nucula potomacensis, Nucula praelongata, Nucula pulchra, Nucula rivulana, Nucula sagittata, Nucula silicea, Nucula stachei, Nucula subtrigona, Nucula waiaotea, Nucula waiotea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Lamellinucula Schenck
1951Nucula (Lamellinucula) Eames p. 317
1972Nucula (Lamellinucula) Hertlein and Grant p. 146
1980Lamellinucula Vokes p. 2
1983Nucula (Lamellinucula) Moore p. A8
1983Nucula (Lamellinucula) Zinsmeister p. 1824
2000Nucula (Lamellinucula) Coan et al. p. 74
2001Nucula (Lamellinucula) Todd
2002Lamellinucula Sepkoski
2004Lamellinucula Spencer et al.
2010Nucula (Lamellinucula) Huber p. 85
2012Nucula (Lamellinucula) Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 43
2020Nucula (Lamellinucula) 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
genusNuculaLamarck 1799
subgenusLamellinucula(Schenck 1944)

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.

Subg. Nucula (Lamellinucula) Schenck 1944
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Invalid names: Nucula (Lamellinucula) keenae Bernard 1983 [synonym], Nucula (Lamellinucula) takashii Bernard 1983 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Nucula cilleborgensis Ravn 1907 [synonym], Nucula praemissa Semper 1861 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Nucula paytensis Adams 1856 [synonym], Nucula suprastriata Arnold 1903 [synonym]
†Nucula (Lamellinucula) kennedyi Zinsmeister 1983
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available