Nuculidae

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

FAMILY

Published in

Gray, John E. 1824. On the natural arrangement of the Pulmonobranchous Mollusca. Annals of Philosophy, New Series 8: 107-109.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Mollusca

class

Bivalvia

order

Nuculida

family

Nuculidae

Name

Homonyms

Nuculidae

Common names

nut clam in English

nut shells in English

nötmusslor in Swedish

parelmoerneuten in Flemish

クルミガイ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

1. Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, <i>in</i>: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <i>Malacologia</i> 52(2): 1-184.
2. Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
3. Mikkelsen P.M. & Bieler R. (2007). <i>Seashells of Southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions. Bivalves.</i> Princeton: Princeton University Press. 503 pp. [publisher's copyright date given as "2008"].