Nucinellidae
Family of bivalves
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]
Genera and species
- Huxleyia (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)
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