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;[2] oval shells with few hinge teeth; they possess a single adductor muscle and one divided foot exhibiting papillae.[3] 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.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Solemyida |
| Superfamily: | Manzanelloidea |
| Family: | Nucinellidae HE Vokes, 1956 |
Genera and species edit
- 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 edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Brian Morton (1 April 1991). Asian Marine Biology 7 (1990). Hong Kong University Press. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-962-209-273-0.
Further reading edit
- 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.
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