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Nucinella

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Nucinellidae

Taxonomy

Nucinella was named by Wood (1850) [Sepkoski's age data: J Hett R]. It is extant. Its type is Pleurodon ovalis.

It was assigned to Solemyoida by Sepkoski (2002); to Manzanellidae by Cox et al. (1969), Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Vokes (1985), Lamprell and Healy (1998), Spencer et al. (2004), Mikkelsen (2006) and Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012); and to Nucinellidae by Vokes (1966), Todd (2001), Glover and Taylor (2013), Kaim et al. (2014), Ros-Franch et al. (2014) and Amano et al. (2019).

Synonyms

Nuculina was named by d'Orbigny (1844). It is extant.

It was replaced with Nucinella by Vokes (1956) and Vokes (1985).
Pleurodon was named by Wood (1840). It is extant.

It was replaced with Nucinella by Vokes (1956) and Vokes (1985).

It was assigned to Manzanellidae by Mikkelsen and Bieler (2008).
Cyrillona was named by Iredale (1929). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Nucinella by Vokes (1956) and Vokes (1985).

It was assigned to Manzanellidae by Vokes (1980).
Neopleurodon was named by Hertlein and Strong (1940). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Nucinella by Vokes (1956) and Vokes (1985).

It was assigned to Manzanellidae by Vokes (1980).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1840	Pleurodon Wood p. 230
1844	Nuculina d'Orbigny p. 161
1850	Nucinella Wood pp. 72-73
1929	Cyrillona Iredale p. 160
1940	Neopleurodon Hertlein and Strong p. 419
1966	Nucinella Vokes p. 38
1969	Nucinella Cox et al. p. 269
1980	Cyrillona Vokes p. 21
1980	Neopleurodon Vokes p. 22
1980	Nucinella Vokes p. 22
1982	Nucinella Woodring p. 723
1985	Nucinella Vokes p. 161
1998	Nucinella Lamprell and Healy p. 70
2001	Nucinella Todd
2002	Nucinella Sepkoski
2004	Nucinella Spencer et al.
2006	Nucinella Mikkelsen
2008	Pleurodon Mikkelsen and Bieler p. 35
2012	Nucinella Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 48
2013	Nucinella Glover and Taylor p. 102
2014	Nucinella Kaim et al. p. 424
2014	Nucinella Ros-Franch et al.
2019	Nucinella Amano et al. p. 210

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Protobranchia	(Pelseneer 1889)
superorder	Nuculiformii	Dall 1889
order	Solemyida	Newell 1965
superfamily	Manzanelloidea	Chronic 1952
family	Nucinellidae	Vokes 1956
genus	Nucinella

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. Nucinella Wood 1850

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†Nucinella alleni Vokes 1966

†Nucinella calabra Seguenza 1877

†Nucinella chipolana Vokes 1985

†Nucinella cincta von Koenen 1893

Nucinella dalli Hedley 1902

†Nucinella dobergensis Lienenklaus 1891

Invalid names: Pleurodon zinndorfi Zilch 1937 [synonym]

†Nucinella dumasi Cossmann and Peyrot 1914

†Nucinella giribeti Glover and Taylor 2013

†Nucinella glabra Ravn 1939

†Nucinella glabrata Stoliczka 1871

†Nucinella gunteri Mansfield 1932

Nucinella hedleyi Cotton and Godfrey 1938

†Nucinella laevigata Vincent 1899

†Nucinella liasina Bistram 1903

Nucinella maxima Thiele and Jaeckel 1931

†Nucinella microdus Boettger 1869

Nucinella miliaris Deshayes 1829

Invalid names: Nuculina suessoniensis Watelet 1870 [synonym]

Nucinella moarianus Hedley 1904

†Nucinella nakremi Foster et al. 2017

†Nucinella oregona Vokes 1956

†Nucinella ovalina Cossmann 1887

†Nucinella ovalis Wood 1840

†Nucinella pissarroi Cossmann 1904

†Nucinella seguenzai Dall 1898

Nucinella serrei Lamy 1912

†Nucinella svalbardensis Hryniewicz et al. 2014

†Nucinella taylori Foster et al. 2017

Nucinella viridula Kuznetzov and Schileyko 1984

Nucinella woodii Dall 1898 [Wood's Little Nut Clam]

Invalid names: Nucinella subdolus Strong and Hertlein 1937 [synonym], Pleurodon adamsi Dall 1898 [synonym]

Invalid names: Cyrillona Iredale 1929 [synonym], Neopleurodon Hertlein and Strong 1940 [synonym], Nuculina d'Orbigny 1844 [replaced], Pleurodon Wood 1840 [replaced]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available