Chinese Register of Marine Species

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Nuculana Link, 1807

AphiaID

138259 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138259)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Nuculanidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (1854)

Parent

Nuculaninae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (1854)

Original name

Nuculana Link, 1807

Direct children (13)

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Species Nuculana acinacea Habe, 1958
Species Nuculana husamaru Nomura, 1940
Species Nuculana jovis (Thiele, 1931)
Species Nuculana pernula (O. F. Müller, 1779)
Species Nuculana scalata Prashad, 1932
Species Nuculana sinensis F.-S. Xu, 1984
Species Nuculana tanseimaruae Tsuchida & Okutani, 1985
Species Nuculana yokoyamai Kuroda, 1934
Species Nuculana forticostata F.-S. Xu, 1991 accepted as Nuculana jovis (Thiele, 1931) (junior subjective synonym)
Species Nuculana gordonis (Yokoyama, 1920) accepted as Saccella gordonis (Yokoyama, 1920)
Species Nuculana kawamurai Habe, 1961 accepted as Nuculana pernula (O. F. Müller, 1779)
Species Nuculana taiwanica Okutani & Lan, 1998 accepted as Lembulus taiwanicus (Okutani & Lan, 1998)
Species Nuculana tashiensis T. C. Lan & Y.-C. Lee, 2001 accepted as Saccella tashiensis (T. C. Lan & Y.-C. Lee, 2001)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237
page(s): 155 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Nuculana Link, 1807. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138259 on 2026-07-11

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Nuculana Link, 1807. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138259 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-09 17:37:21Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-06-19 21:24:13Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-10-27 19:29:48Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2018-12-08 07:55:26Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-02-07 09:52:44Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237
page(s): 155 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

basis of record Nevesskaja, L. A.; Popov, S. V.; Goncharova, I. A.; Guzhov, A. V.; Yanin, B. T.; Polubotko, I. V.; Biakov, A. S.; Gavrilova, V. A. (2013). Phanerozoic Bivalvia of Russia and surrounding countries [Двустворчатые моллюски России и сопредельных стран в фанерозое]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk / Transactions of the Paleontological Institute.</em> 294: 1-524.
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 74-75 [details]

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]