Nucinellidae

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Nucinellidae
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Nucinella dalli [1]
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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; [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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Genera and species

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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.

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