WoRMS taxon details
Nucula falklandica Preston, 1912
197316 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:197316)
accepted
Species
Nucula (Nucula) falklandica Preston, 1912 · alternative representation
Nucula minuscula Pfeffer, 1886 sensu Melvill & Standen, 1907 · unaccepted (misidentification of Nucula...)
misidentification of Nucula minuscula Pfeffer, 1886
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Preston, H.B. (1912). Characters of six new pelecypods and two new gastropods from the Falkland Islands. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (ser. 8) 9: 636-640, pl. 21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18639393
page(s): 637, pl. 21, fig. 3 [details]
page(s): 637, pl. 21, fig. 3 [details]
Type locality contained in Falkland Islands Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Falkland Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nucula falklandica Preston, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197316 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Preston, H.B. (1912). Characters of six new pelecypods and two new gastropods from the Falkland Islands. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (ser. 8) 9: 636-640, pl. 21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18639393
page(s): 637, pl. 21, fig. 3 [details]
basis of record Zettler M.L., Bick A. (2025). Nuculidae (Bivalvia) from King George Island (South Shetland Islands) with the description of a new species of Ennucula. <em>Iberus.</em> 43(1): 83-92.
page(s): 85, fig. 1-10 [details]
page(s): 637, pl. 21, fig. 3 [details]
basis of record Zettler M.L., Bick A. (2025). Nuculidae (Bivalvia) from King George Island (South Shetland Islands) with the description of a new species of Ennucula. <em>Iberus.</em> 43(1): 83-92.
page(s): 85, fig. 1-10 [details]
Other
additional source
Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. <em>Organisms Diversity and Evolution.</em> 3: 207-213., available online at https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/sombase-southern-ocean-mollusc-database-a-tool-for-biogeographic/ [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Engl, W. (2012). <i>Shells of Antarctica</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp. [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Engl, W. (2012). <i>Shells of Antarctica</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
