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Saccella

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Saccella
Shell of Saccella illirica (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculanida
Superfamily: Nuculanoidea
Family: Nuculanidae
Genus: Saccella
Woodring, 1925
Type species
Arca fragilis
Deshayes, 1858
Synonyms
  • Jupiteria (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
  • Leda (Ledina) Sacco, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of Ledina...)
  • Leda (Saccella) Woodring, 1925
  • Nuculana (Saccella) Woodring, 1925 · unaccepted
  • Nuculana (Scaeoleda) Iredale, 1929 (junior synonym)
  • Scaeoleda Iredale, 1929

Saccella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Nuculanidae.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Saccella Woodring, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236687 on 2022-04-27
  • Woodring W.P. (1925). Miocene Mollusca from Bowden Jamaica, pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 366 : 1-564, pl. 1-40.
  • 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
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