Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Iridescent Nutclam, Short Nutclam
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Subclass:
Protobranchia
()
- Order:
Nuculoida
()
- Superfamily:
Nuculoidea
()
-
- Superfamily:
Nuculoidea
(
- Order:
Nuculoida
(
- Subclass:
Protobranchia
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 13-Mar-2003
Similar Species
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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
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- 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. 81.
- A manual of the Mollusca: or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells / by S. P. Woodward; illustrated by A. N. Waterhouse and Joseph Wilson Lowry. London, J. Weale, 1851-56. url p. 376.
- American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 335.
- Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. New-York: 1824-1876. url p. 479.
- Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Pomona, Calif., Western Society of Malacologists. url page 28, table 1 , page 31, table 2 , p. 25, p. 25.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 10.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 43 1904 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 219, p. 219, p. 370, p. 370.
- Bulletins of American paleontology. 25 1940 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 150, p. 38.
- Catalogue of North American shells / collected and for sale by Henry Hemphill. San Diego, Calif.: H. Hemphill, 1890. url p. 20.
- Catalogue of North American shells, collected and for sale by Henry Hemphill [San Diego, Calif., Henry Hemphill]1890 url p. 20.
- Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and geographical distribution. By C.B. Adams. .. Read before the Lyceum of Natural History, May 10th, 1852. New York, R. Craighead, printer, 1852. url p. 255.
- Check lists of the shells of North America Prepared for the Smithsonian institution, by Isaac Lea, P. P. Carpenter, Wm. Stimpson, W. G. Binney, and Temple Prime Washington, Smithsonian institution1860 url p. 4.
- Checklist of the recent bivalve mollusks (Pelecypoda) of the northwest coast of America from the Polar Sea to San Diego, California. By William Healy Dall... Los Angeles, 1916. url p. 10.
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 1 1931 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 111, p. 145, p. 146, p. 147, p. 48.
- Molluscan world, San Diego, Calif., 1915. url p. 102.
- Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific: particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru); Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda / by Axel A. Olsson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, 1961. url p. 56.
- Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society. London: Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, [1847?- url .
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 563.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 250, p. 27, p. 507.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 19 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 11, p. 200, p. 27, p. 28, p. 4, p. 507, p. 81.
- Systematic list of the Frederick E. Edwards collection of British oligocene and eocene Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons con LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1891 url p. 23.
- The Journal of geology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1893- url p. 454.
- The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda. Cambridge, Harvard College, Museum of Comparative Zoology]1908. url p. 219, p. 250, p. 370.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 126, p. 29, p. 29.
- 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 embracing the second report made to the British Association on this subject, with other papers, reprinted by permission, with a general index / by Philip P. Carpenter. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1872. url , p. 200.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 242, p. 335, p. 335, p. 337, p. 338.
- Type specimens of marine mollusca described by P. P. Carpenter from the west coast (San Diego to British Columbia) [New York, Geological Society of America]1958. url p. 45.
- Zoogeography and ecology of some macro-invertebrates, particularly mollusks, in the Gulf of California and the continental slope off Mexico. [n.p.][1963] url p. 173.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2691899
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-79154
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 79154
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 511665
