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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: : Nuculanoidea: Yoldiidae

Yoldia myalis (Couthouy, 1838)


Range: 68°N to 42°N; 70.5°W to 57°W
Depth: 16 to 146 m (live 16 to 67 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 15  mm

Synonymy

Nucula limatula auct. non Say, 1831
Nucula myalis Couthouy, 1838
Leda myalis (Couthouy, 1838) 
Nucula oblongoides S. V. Wood, 1840
Nucula cascoensis Mighels & Adams, 1842
Leda cascoensis (Mighels & Adams, 1842) 
Yoldia vancouverensis E. A. Smith, 1880

Details


Nucula myalis Couthouy, 1838,
[Basis of the current name]
Range: 68°N to 42°N; 70.5°W to 57°W
Depth: 16 to 146 m (live 16 to 67 m)
Distribution: Canada: Quebec; USA: Maine, Massachusetts
References: Couthouy (1838) SW; Procter (1933) dLl
Combining Genera:  Leda

Nucula cascoensis Mighels & Adams, 1842, 
[Synonym]
Range: 43.7°N ; 70.2°W
Maximum Reported Size: 15 mm
Distribution: USA: Maine
References: Mighels & Adams (1842) NSEWM; Bernard (1983) s
Combining Genera:  Leda

Nucula limatula auct. non Say, 1831, 
[Not available]
References: Coan et al. (2000) s
Comments: Misidentification.

Nucula oblongoides S. V. Wood, 1840, 
[Synonymy uncertain]
References: Abbott (1974) s

Yoldia vancouverensis E. A. Smith, 1880, 
[Synonym]
References: Bernard (1983) s



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