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Nucleolaria OYAMA 1959
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NUCLEOLARIA OYAMA, 1959
Type Species— Cypraea nucleus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation (of Oyama, 1959: p. 361); Holocene, Indo-Pacific (Red Sea and east Africa to southern Japan, Australia, French Polynesia, and Hawaiʻi) (Groves 1994a).
Diagnosis— Shell small to medium in size; coarse to fine dorsal nodules with fine inter-nodular threads; prominent dorsal sulcus; coarse ribs on base of shell; fossula deep with strong dentition (Jousseaume, 1884: p. 98).
Geologic Range— Middle Eocene through Holocene (Groves 1994a).
Remarks— Jousseaume (1884: p. 98) originally described Nuclearia [non - Nuclearia Cienkowsky, 1865, a freshwater amoeboid].
Notes
Published as part of Groves, Lindsey & Squires, Richard L., 2023, Revision of northeast Pacific Paleogene cypraeoidean gastropods, including recognition of three new species: implications for paleobiogeographic distribution and faunal turnover, pp. 1-52 in PaleoBios 40 (10) on page 8, DOI: 10.5070/P9401057774, http://zenodo.org/record/10913295
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- Scientific name authorship
- OYAMA
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Cypraeidae
- Genus
- Nucleolaria
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nucleolaria OYAMA, 1959 sec. Groves & Squires, 2023
References
- Oyama, K. 1959. Review of nomenclature on Japanese shells (3). Venus 20 (4): 361 - 362.
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae … Editio decimal, reformata. Vol. (Regnum animale), part. Holmiae. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Stockholm. 824 pp.
- Groves, L. T. 1994 a. New species of Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Miocene of California and the Eocene of Washington. The Veliger 37 (3): 244 - 252, figs. 1 - 13 [reprinted in Bulletin of the Southern California Paleontological Society 26 (9 - 10): 79 - 87].
- Jousseaume, F. P. 1884. Etude sur la famille des Cypaeidae. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique 9: 81 - 100.
- Cienkowsky, L. 1865. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Mon- aden. Archiv fur Mikroskopische Anatomie 1: 203 - 232, pls. 12 - 14.