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Nucinellidae
Nucinella dalli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Solemyida
Superfamily:	Manzanelloidea
Family:	Nucinellidae HE Vokes, 1956

Nucinellidae is a family of bivalves, in the order Solemyida. Its species are small and principally reside in deep-water environments. The species' average length is less than 5 millimetres (0.20 in), the largest species being Nucinella boucheti (La Perna, 2005) at a length of 25 millimetres (0.98 in). The family's characteristic features include large gills and reduced palps and their appendages; oval shells with few hinge teeth; they possess a single adductor muscle and one divided foot exhibiting papillae. The family contains two known genera: Huxleyia and Nucinella. Speaking of Nucinella, the genus' ligament system is of the simple arched type, lacking nymphae. Regarding the former, the system is "submerged" beneath its dorsal margin.

Genera and species

• Huxleyia (Adams, 1860)
  • Huxleyia cavernicola (Hayami & Kase, 1993)
  • Huxleyia concentrica (Verco, 1907)
  • Huxleyia diabolica (Jousseaume, 1897)
  • Huxleyia habooba (Oliver & Taylor, 2012)
  • Huxleyia munita (Dall, 1898)
  • Huxleyia pentadonta (Scarlato, 1981)
  • Huxleyia sulcata (Adams, 1860)
• Nucinella (Wood, 1851)
  • Nucinella adamsii (Dall, 1898)
  • Nucinella boucheti (La Perna, 2005)
  • Nucinella dalli (Hedley, 1902)
  • Nucinella giribeti (Glover & Taylor, 2013)
  • Nucinella kanekoi (Matsukuma, Okutani & Tsuchi, 1982)
  • Nucinella maoriana (Hedley, 1904)
  • Nucinella maxima (Thiele, 1931)
  • Nucinella ovalis (Wood, 1840)
  • Nucinella owenensis (Oliver & Taylor, 2012)
  • Nucinella pretiosa (Gould, 1861)
  • Nucinella serrei (Lamy, 1912)
  • Nucinella subdola (Strong & Hertlein, 1937)
  • Nucinella surugana (Matsukuma, Okutani & Tsuchi, 1982)
  • Nucinella viridis (Matsukuma, Okutani & Tsuchi, 1982)
  • Nucinella viridula (Kuznetzov & Schileyko, 1984)

References

1. Hedley C. (1902). "Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H. M. C. S. “Thetis”, of the coast if New South Wales. Molluscs. Part I". Australian Museum Memoirs 4 (5): 287–324.
2. Norman Dennis Newell (1998). Bivalves: an eon of evolution : paleobiological studies honoring Norman D. Newell. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-005-5.
3. Steffen Kiel (21 September 2010). The Vent and Seep Biota: Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 112–. ISBN 978-90-481-9572-5.
4. Brian Morton (1 April 1991). Asian Marine Biology 7 (1990). Hong Kong University Press. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-962-209-273-0.

Further reading

• Elizabeth Harper; John David Taylor; J. Alistair Crame (2000). The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. Geological Society of London. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-1-86239-076-8.
• La Perna, Rafael. "A gigantic deep-sea Nucinellidae from the tropical West Pacific (Bivalvia: Protobranchia)." Zootaxa 881 (2005): 1-10.
• Oliver, P. G.; Taylor, J. D. (2012). "Bacterial symbiosis in the Nucinellidae (Bivalvia: Solemyida) with descriptions of two new species". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78 (1): 81–91. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr045. ISSN 0260-1230.
• Carter, J. G.; Campbell, D. C.; Campbell, M. R. (2000). "Cladistic perspectives on early bivalve evolution". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 177 (1): 47–79. Bibcode:2000GSLSP.177...47C. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.177.01.04. ISSN 0305-8719. S2CID 128533028.

External links

• "Nucinellidae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• WORMS

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