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Bivalvia: Opponobranchia: Nuculoidea: Nuculidae

Nucula pisum Sowerby I, 1833


Range: 23°S to 53.5°S; 74.1°W to 44°W
Depth: 0 to 52 m
Maximum Reported Size: 7  mm

Synonymy

Nucula pisum Sowerby I, 1833
Linucula pisum (Sowerby I, 1833) 
Nucula semiornata d'Orbigny, 1842

Details


Nucula pisum Sowerby I in Broderip & Sowerby, 1833b, p. 198, not figured
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Valparaiso [Chile], 7-40 fathoms
Range: 53.5°S to 53.5°S; 74.1°W to 69.82°W
Depth: 13 to 52 m
Maximum Reported Size: 5 mm
Distribution: Straits of Magellan, Chile
References: Sowerby I (1833) d; Villarroel & Stuardo (1998) DNSEWM
Comments: Non T. Brown, 1845.
Combining Genera:  Linucula

Nucula semi-ornata d'Orbigny, 1842d, p. 624-625 [1846], pl. 84, figs. 27-29
[Synonym]
Type Locality: baie de San-Blas, au nord de la Patagonie; fossile à la baie Blanche
Range: 23°S to 40.5°S; 62.5°W to 44°W
Depth: 0 to 50 m
Maximum Reported Size: 7 mm
Distribution: Uruguay, Argentina: Buenos Aires
References: Scarabino (2003); d'Orbigny (1846) SWM; Rios (1975) DdNE; Bernard (1983) s


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1833. [The collection of Shells formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 194-202. [True date: 13 Mar 1833.]
d'Orbigny, A. 1842. Mollusques Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5 pls. 83-85. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1842.]

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