Nuculanidae

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title: "Nuculanidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nuculanidae", "bivalve-families", "extant-permian-first-appearances"] description: "Family of bivalves" topic_path: "general/nuculanidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuculanidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of bivalves ::

| fossil_range = Permian to Present | image = Nuculana minuta 001.jpg | image_caption = Three shells of Nuculana minuta | taxon = Nuculanidae | authority = H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text

Nuculanidae is a family of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Nuculanida. Species in this family are found in all seas, from shallow to deep water.

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Nuculanidae include:

• Acutispinula
  • Acutispinula hilleri (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
  • Acutispinula scheltemai (Allen & Sanders, 1982)
• Adrana H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
• Jupiteria
  • Jupiteria manawatawhia Powell, 1937)
  • Jupiteria wolffi Dell, 1956
  • Jupiteria zealedaformis Dell, 1953
• Ledella
  • Ledella aberrata Allen & Sanders, 1996
  • Ledella finlayi Powell, 1935
  • Ledella herdmani Dell, 1953
  • Ledella jamesi Allen & Hannah, 1989
  • Ledella librata Dell, 1952
  • Ledella pustulosa Allen & Hannah, 1989
  • † Ledella rhomboidea (May, 1922)
  • Ledella sublevis A. E. Verrill & Bush, 1898
  • Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
• Lembulus Link, 1807
  • Lembulus pellus (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Nuculana
  • Nuculana acuta (Conrad, 1832)
  • Nuculana aspecta (Dall, 1927)
  • Nuculana bipennis (Dall, 1927)
  • Nuculana bushiana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
  • Nuculana caudata (Donovan, 1801)
  • Nuculana cestrota (Dall, 1890)
  • Nuculana concentrica (Say, 1824)
  • Nuculana eborea Conrad, 1848
  • Nuculana fortiana Esteves, 1984
  • Nuculana hebes (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Nuculana inaequisculpta Lamy, 1906
  • Nuculana jamaicensis (d’Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
  • Nuculana kalmartini Weisbord, 1964
  • Nuculana larranagai Klappenbach & Scarabino, 1969
  • Nuculana marella Weisbord, 1964
  • Nuculana minuta (O. F. Müller, 1776)
  • Nuculana orixa (Dall, 1927)
  • Nuculana parva (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
  • Nuculana pernula (Müller, 1779)
  • Nuculana platessa (Dall, 1890)
  • Nuculana pusio (Philippi, 1844)
  • Nuculana rhytida Dall, 1908
  • Nuculana semen (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Nuculana solidifacta (Dall, 1886)
  • Nuculana solidula (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  • Nuculana sufficientia Poppe & Tagaro, 2016
  • Nuculana taphria (Dall, 1898)
  • Nuculana tenuisulcata (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Nuculana verrilliana (Dall, 1886)
  • Nuculana vitrea (d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1853)
  • Nuculana vulgaris Pilsbry & Brown, 1913
  • Nuculana whitensis Farinati, 1978
• Poroleda
  • Poroleda lanceolata (Hutton, 1885)
• Saccella
• Scissuladrana
  • Scissuladrana ludmillae Petuch, 1987
• Thestyleda
  • Thestyleda investigator Dell, 1952)
  • Thestyleda louiseae (Clarke, 1962)
• Tindariopsis
  • Tindariopsis sulculata (‘Couthouy’ Gould, 1852)

Fossil taxa:

• Dacromya

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

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