WoRMS taxon details
Saccella Woodring, 1925
236687 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236687)
accepted
Genus
Arca fragilis Deshayes, 1858 accepted as Saccella commutata (R. A. Philippi, 1844) (type by typification of replaced name)
Jupiteria (Saccella) Woodring, 1925 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Leda (Ledina) Sacco, 1898 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Ledina...)
invalid: junior homonym of Ledina Dall, 1898 [November]; Saccella is a replacement name
Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925 † · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Nuculana (Scaeoleda) Iredale, 1929 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Saccella acapulcensis (Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
- Species Saccella acrita (Dall, 1908)
- Species Saccella acuta (Conrad, 1832)
- Species Saccella approximans (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Saccella bathybia (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Saccella bellula (A. Adams, 1856)
- Species Saccella brookei (Hanley, 1860)
- Species Saccella caloundra (Iredale, 1929)
- Species Saccella cellulita (Dall, 1896)
- Species Saccella comita (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
- Species Saccella commutata (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
- Species Saccella confusa (Hanley, 1860)
- Species Saccella corbuloides (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Species Saccella crassa (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Saccella cuneata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Species Saccella cygnea (Thiele, 1931)
- Species Saccella darwini (E. A. Smith, 1884)
- Species Saccella discrepans (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Saccella eburnea (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Species Saccella electilis (Hedley, 1915)
- Species Saccella elenensis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Species Saccella fastigata (Keen, 1958)
- Species Saccella glacies Poppe & Tagaro, 2023
- Species Saccella gordonis (Yokoyama, 1920)
- Species Saccella hedleyi (C. A. Fleming, 1951)
- Species Saccella hindsii (Hanley, 1860)
- Species Saccella illirica (Carrozza, 1987)
- Species Saccella impar (Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
- Species Saccella irradiata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
- Species Saccella laeviradius (Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
- Species Saccella larranagai (Klappenbach & Scarabino, 1969)
- Species Saccella mauritiana (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
- Species Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006
- Species Saccella micans (Hanley, 1860)
- Species Saccella multicostae Poppe & Tagaro, 2023
- Species Saccella novaeguineensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Species Saccella penderi (Dall & Bartsch, 1910)
- Species Saccella robsoni (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Saccella sematensis (K. Suzuki & Ishizuka, 1943)
- Species Saccella sibogai (Prashad, 1932)
- Species Saccella takaoensis (Otsuka, 1936)
- Species Saccella taphria (Dall, 1897)
- Species Saccella tashiensis (T. C. Lan & Y.-C. Lee, 2001)
- Species Saccella ventricosa (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Saccella verconis (Tate, 1891)
- Species Saccella verrilliana (Dall, 1886)
- Species Saccella vitrea (A. d'Orbigny, 1853)
- Species Saccella vulgaris (A. P. Brown & Pilsbry, 1913)
- Species Saccella watsoni (E. A. Smith, 1885)
- Species Saccella agapea (Dall, 1908) accepted as Jupiteria agapea (Dall, 1908)
- Species Saccella bellula (A. Adams, 1856) sensu A. W. B. Powell, 1979 accepted as Saccella maxwelli Beu, 2006 (misidentifiction)
- Species Saccella concentrica (Say, 1824) accepted as Nuculana concentrica (Say, 1824) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Saccella dohrni (Hanley, 1861) accepted as Nuculana dohrni (Hanley, 1861)
- Species Saccella pontonia (Dall, 1890) accepted as Jupiteria pontonia (Dall, 1890)
- Species Saccella soyoae Habe, 1958 accepted as Nuculana husamaru Nomura, 1940
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
(of Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925) Woodring, W. P. (1925). Miocene mollusks from Bowden Jamaica. Pelecypods and scaphopods. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 366: 1-222, pls. 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59239218
page(s): 15 [details]
page(s): 15 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Saccella Woodring, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236687 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929) Iredale, T. (1929). Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No 2. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 17(4): 157-189 [4 September 1929]., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Iredale-1929-Rec-Aust-Mus-174-157189
page(s): 158, 187 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Leda (Ledina) Sacco, 1898) Sacco, F. (1898). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVI. (Arcidae, Pectunculidae, Limopsidae, Nuculidae, Ledidae, Malletidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 92 pp., 12 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47765
page(s): 53 [details]
original description (of Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925) Woodring, W. P. (1925). Miocene mollusks from Bowden Jamaica. Pelecypods and scaphopods. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 366: 1-222, pls. 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59239218
page(s): 15 [details]
basis of record 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): 75 [details]
page(s): 158, 187 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Leda (Ledina) Sacco, 1898) Sacco, F. (1898). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVI. (Arcidae, Pectunculidae, Limopsidae, Nuculidae, Ledidae, Malletidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 92 pp., 12 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47765
page(s): 53 [details]
original description (of Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925) Woodring, W. P. (1925). Miocene mollusks from Bowden Jamaica. Pelecypods and scaphopods. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 366: 1-222, pls. 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59239218
page(s): 15 [details]
basis of record 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): 75 [details]
Taxonomy
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]
status source Marshall, B. A.; Spencer, H. G. (2013). Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's Compendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes. <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 33(1): 40-49., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2012.754147 [details]
status source La Perna R. (2008). Revision of the Nuculanidae (Bivalvia: Protobranchia) from the Cerulli Irelli collection (Mediterranean, Pleistocene). <em>Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.</em> 46(2-3): 125-137., available online at http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/125_La_Perna_light.pdf
page(s): 126 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Marshall, B. A.; Spencer, H. G. (2013). Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's Compendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes. <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 33(1): 40-49., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2012.754147 [details]
status source La Perna R. (2008). Revision of the Nuculanidae (Bivalvia: Protobranchia) from the Cerulli Irelli collection (Mediterranean, Pleistocene). <em>Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.</em> 46(2-3): 125-137., available online at http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/125_La_Perna_light.pdf
page(s): 126 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Saccella)
To Genbank (from synonym Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929)
To Genbank
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon
Unreviewed
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