Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculida > Superfamily Nuculoidea

Nuculidae J. E. Gray, 1824

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Austronucula A. W. B. Powell, 1939
Brevinucula Thiele, 1934
Condylonucula D. R. Moore, 1977
Ennucula Iredale, 1931
Leionucula Quenstedt, 1930
Nucula Lamarck, 1799
Nuculoma Cossmann, 1907

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: parelmoerneuten sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: nut clams; nut shells sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 German: Nussmuscheln sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 Japanese: クルミガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Swedish: nötmusslor

Literature

original description

Gray, J. E. (1824). Shells. in: Parry W.E. (ed.) Supplement to Appendix, Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-1820, contaning an account of the subjects of Natural History. London: John Murray Appendix 10, Zool.: 240-246.

basis of record

Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp.

additional source

Bergmans, W. (1978). Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum. 31(17): 673-736.

additional source

Rhind, P. M.; Allen, J. A. (1992). Studies on the deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia): the family Nuculidae. Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History (Zoology). 58(1): 61-93.

additional source

Kilburn, R.N. (1999). The Family Nuculidae (Bivalvia: Protobranchia) in South Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 40: 245-268.

redescription

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.

redescription

Mikkelsen, P. M. & Bieler, R. (2007). Seashells of Southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions. Bivalves. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 503 pp. [publisher's copyright date given as "2008"].

status source

Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nuculidae J. E. Gray, 1824. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204

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Environment


marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

EU Habitat Directive:
annex II EU Habitat Directive Annex II: Species of community interest whose conservation requires the designation of special areas of conservation.
annex IV EU Habitat Directive Annex IV: Species of community interest in need of strict protection.

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