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Nuculana  Link, 1807
Taxonomic Serial No.: 79188

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Costelloleda Hertlein and Strong, 1940
  
    Leda Schumacher, 1817
  
    Jupiteria Bellardi, 1875
  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 1999   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassProtobranchia Pelseneer, 1889  
                      OrderNuculanida Carter, D. C. Campbell and M. R. Campbell, 2000  
                         SuborderNuculanina   
                            SuperfamilyNuculanoidea H. and A. Adams, 1858  
                               FamilyNuculanidae H. and A. Adams, 1858  
                                  GenusNuculana Link, 1807  
    Direct Children:  
                                     Species Nuculana acuta (Conrad, 1832) – pointed nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana amiata (Dall, 1916) – rostrate nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana aspecta (Dall, 1927)  
                                     Species Nuculana bipennis (Dall, 1927)  
                                     Species Nuculana callimene (Dall, 1908) – moon nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana carpenteri (Dall, 1881) – carpenter nutclam, smooth nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana caudata (Donovan, 1801) – tailed nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana cellulita (Dall, 1896) – fine-lined nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana cestrota (Dall, 1889) – hammer nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana concentrica (Say, 1824) – concentric nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana conceptionis (Dall, 1896)  
                                     Species Nuculana crenulata (A. Adams, 1856)  
                                     Species Nuculana dalli Krause, 1885  
                                     Species Nuculana elenensis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) – Ecuador nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana extenuata (Dall, 1897)  
                                     Species Nuculana gomphoidea (Dall, 1916)  
                                     Species Nuculana hamata (Carpenter, 1864) – hooked nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana jacksoni (Gould, 1841) – jackson nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana jamaicensis (d'Orbigny, 1842) – Jamaica nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana leonina (Dall, 1896)  
                                     Species Nuculana liogona (Dall, 1916)  
                                     Species Nuculana messanensis (Sequenza, 1877) – messanean nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana minuta (Muller, 1776) – minute nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana navisa (Dall, 1916) – ship nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana orixa (Dall, 1927)  
                                     Species Nuculana ornata   
                                     Species Nuculana oxia (Dall, 1916) – pacific nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana parva (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) – dwarf nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana penderi (Dall and Bartsch, 1910) – pender nutclam, sharp-point nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana pernula (Müller, 1779) – northern nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana platessa   
                                     Species Nuculana radiata (Krause, 1885) – rayed nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana spargana (Dall, 1916) – san diego nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana subaequilatera (Jeffreys, 1879) – unequal nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana tamara Gorbunov, 1946  
                                     Species Nuculana taphria (Dall, 1896) – furrowed nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana tenuisulcata (Couthouy, 1838) – thin nutclam 
                                     Species Nuculana verrilliana (Dall, 1886) – verrill nutclam, barbed nutclam 
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Nuculana   
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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  Reference for: Nuculana   
       

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