Nucinellidae Vokes 1956
Description
Family Nucinellidae Vokes, 1956
Genus Nucinella Wood, 1851
Type species. Pleurodon ovalis Wood, 1840
Remarks. Nucinella has sometimes been placed in the family Manzanellidae Chronic, 1952 (e.g. Amano et al. 2007; Kiel et al. 2008a). However, the Permian genus Manzanella Girty, 1909, is longer than high, with roughly equidistantly positioned beaks. Furthermore, it is dimyarian, with anterior and posterior adductor muscle scars roughly equal in size (Chronic 1952). This contrasts with the genus Nucinella Wood, 1851, which is monomyarian and has a very short posterior shell margin (e.g. Allen & Sanders 1969). A dimyarian condition was previously postulated for the supposed sister genus Huxleyia Adams, 1860 (e.g. Habe 1958; pl. 9, fig. 16; La Perna 2004, p. 571). However, investigation of Huxleyia habooba Oliver & Taylor, 2012, and Huxleyia sulcata Adams, 1860, revealed no sign of a posterior adductor muscle, which supports separation of Nucinella and Huxleyia into a separate family Nucinellidae (Oliver & Taylor 2012), with Manzanellidae restricted to the genus Manzanella.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nucinellidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Solemyoida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Vokes
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nucinellidae Vokes, 1956 sec. Hryniewicz, Little & Nakrem, 2014
References
- Vokes, H. E. (1956) Notes on Nucinellidae (Pelecypoda) with description of a new species from the Eocene of Oregon. Journal of Paleontology, 30, 652 - 671.
- Wood, S. V. (1851) Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Part 2. Bivalves. Palaeontographical Society Monographs, 4, 1 - 150, pls. 1 - 12. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 25879
- Wood, S. V. (1840) A catalogue of the shells of the Crag. Magazine of Natural History, 6, 243 - 253. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484009443291
- Chronic, H. (1952) Molluscan fauna from the Permian Kaibab Formation, Walnut Canyon, Arizona. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 63, 95 - 166. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1130 / 0016 - 7606 (1952) 63 [95: mfftpk] 2.0. co; 2
- Kiel, S., Amano, K. & Jenkins, R. G. (2008 a) Bivalves from Cretaceous cold seep deposits on Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 525 - 537. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4202 / app. 2008.0310
- Girty, G. H. (1909) Paleontology of the Manzano Group. In: Lee, W. T. & Girty, G. (Eds.), The Manzano Group of the Rio Grande valley, New Mexico. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 389, 41 - 141, pls. 6 - 12.
- Allen, J. A. & Sanders, H. L. (1969) Nucinella serrei Lamy (Bivalvia: Protobranchia), a monomyarian solemyid and possible living actinodont. Malacologia, 7, 381 - 396.
- Adams, A. (1860) On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 5, 299 - 303.
- Habe, T. (1958) Report on the Mollusca chiefly collected by the S. S. Soyo-Maru of the Imperial Fisheries Experimental Station on the continental shelf bordering Japan during the years 1922 - 1930. Part 3. Lamellibranchia (1). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University, 6, 241 - 279.
- La Perna, R. (2004) Nucinella alibrandi (Conti, 1864) and N. seguenzae (Dall, 1898): the last European nucinellids (Bivalvia: Protobranchia). Rivista Italiana di Palaeontologia e Stratigrafia, 110, 571 - 577.
- Oliver, G. P. & Taylor, J. D. (2012) Bacterial symbiosis in the Nucinellidae (Bivalvia: Solemyida) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78, 81 - 91. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / mollus / eyr 045