Nucula castrensis

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• Common Names
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nucula

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

N. aegeensis (Aegean Nutclam) · N. atacellana (Cancellate Nutclam) · N. calcicola (Reef Nutclam) · N. calcicola calcicola (Reef Nutclam) · N. carlottensis (Charlotte Nutclam) · N. castrensis (Spotted Leporinus) · N. crenulata (Crenulate Nutclam) · N. cyrenoides (One-Striped African Characin) · N. delphinodonta (Dolphintooth Nutclam) · N. exigua (Iridescent Nutclam) · N. groenlandica (Greenland Nutclam) · N. lyalli (Utah Chub) · N. nucleus (Nuclear Nut Clam) · N. paulula (Pirambeba) · N. portlandica (Northern Hog Sucker) · N. proxima proxima (Atlantic Nutclam)

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Further Reading

• A manual of the Mollusca: a treatise on recent and fossil shells / by Dr. S. P. Woodward; with an appendix of recent and fossil conchological discoveries to the present time, by Ralph Tate; illustrated by A. N. Waterhouse and Joseph Wilson Lowry. London: Virtue & Co., 1868. url p. 76.
• A manual of the Mollusca: being a treatise on recent and fossil shells. London: C. Lockwood and Co., 1880. url p. 76.
• Bibliography of North American conchology previous to the year 1860: prepared for the Smithsonian Institution / by W. G. Binney. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1863-1864. url p. 11, p. 188, p. 254, p. 300.
• Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals / by Lovell Augustus Reeve. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. url p. 14.
• Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 21.
• Geological magazine. London [etc.]Cambridge University Press. url p. 28.
• Harriman Alaska series. vol. I-V, VIII-XIV Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1910-14 url p. 105, p. 169.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 110.
• Journal of entomology and zoology. Claremont, Calif., U.S.A.: Pomona College Dept. of Zoology, [1913- url p. 75, p. 76.
• Marine shells of British Columbia. Preliminary check list. Victoria, B. C., R. Wolfenden, printer to the Queen's most excellent majesty, 1893. url .
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 17, p. 17, p. 18, p. 21.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 1 1931 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url fig. 4, page 115, p. 117, p. 147.
• Molluscan fauna from San Francisco bay, by E.L. Packard. Berkeley: University of California press, 1918. url p. 246.
• Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url , p. 102, p. 50, p. 57, p. 83, p. 84.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 172.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 626.
• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society url p. 18, p. 18, p. 24.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 172, p. 182.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 2.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 9 1869 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 188, p. 27.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 349, p. 349, p. 349, p. 468.
• The Fernando group near Newhall, California / by Walter A. English Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1914 url p. 9.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 137, p. 97, p. 97.
• The Tertiary and Quaternary Pectens of California / Ralph Arnold. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1906. url .
• The conchologist's nomenclator: a catalogue of all the recent species of shells / by Agnes Catlow; assisted by Lovell Reeve. London: Reeve Brothers, 1845. url p. 53.
• The mollusks of western North America. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1872. url .
• The naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia. By John Keast Lord. .. London, R. Bentley, 1866. url p. 370.
• The shell book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign / by Julia Ellen Rogers; eight plates in colour, and ninety-six in black-and-white mostly from photographs by A.R. Dugmore. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. url p. 474.
• The shell book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1908. url .
• The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur: under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42 / London: Smith, Elder, 1844 [i.e. 1843-1846] url , p. 63.
• Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: W.Y. Morgan, 1903- url p. 174, p. 175, p. 201, p. 204.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 239, p. 29, p. 454, p. 480.
• University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 246.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 29, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16535523
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2421967

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