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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: : Nuculanoidea: Yoldiidae

Megayoldia thraciaeformis (Storer, 1838)


Range: 68°N to 39.93°N; 70.5°W to 0°W
Depth: 18 to 732 m (live 18 to 36 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 55  mm

Synonymy

Leda thraciaeformis (Storer, 1838) 
Yoldia thraciaeformis (Storer, 1838) 
Nucula thraciaeformis Storer, 1838
Nucula navicularis Couthouy, 1839
Yoldia angularis Möller, 1842
Yoldia regularis A. E. Verrill, 1884
Microyoldia regularis (A. E. Verrill, 1884) 
Portlandia dalli Krause, 1885
Nucula groenlandica Posselt, 1899
Yoldia secunda Dall, 1916
Yoldia scapha Yokoyama, 1926
Microyoldia ochotensis Scarlato, 1981

Details


Nucula thraciaeformis Storer, 1838, p. 122-125, 1 text-fig.
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: off Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Bay, 30 fathoms
Range: 68°N to 40.2°N; 70°W
Depth: 18 to 732 m (live 18 to 36 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 55 mm
Distribution: Canada: Quebec, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey
References: Storer (1838) M; Stimpson (1851c); Procter (1933) dLl; Clarke (1954) DS; R. I. Johnson (2006) T
Combining Genera:  Leda Yoldia

Yoldia angularis Möller, 1842a, p. 92
[Synonym]
Type Locality: [Julianehaab, West] Greenland [see Schiötte & Warén (1992)]
Range: 61°N ; 47°W
Depth: 127 to 146 m
Maximum Reported Size: 12.7 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Schiötte & Warén (1992) DdNSEWMs

Portlandia dalli Krause, 1885, 
[Synonym]
References: Coan et al. (2000) s

Nucula groenlandica Posselt, 1899, 
[Synonym]
Range: 60°N
Depth: 241 m
References: Warén (1989b) s

Nucula navicularis Couthouy, 1839, 
[Synonym]
Range: 42°N ; 70.5°W
Distribution: USA: Massachusetts
References: Couthouy (1839) NSEW; Stimpson (1851c) s; Gould (1870) s

Microyoldia ochotensis Scarlato, 1981, 
[Synonym]
References: Coan et al. (2000) s

Yoldia regularis A. E. Verrill, 1884, 
[Synonym]
Range: 39.93°N ; 69.7°W
Depth: 638 m
Maximum Reported Size: 3 mm
References: Warén (1989b) s; Coan et al. (2000) s
Combining Genera:  Microyoldia

Yoldia scapha Yokoyama, 1926, 
[Synonym]
References: Coan et al. (2000) s

Yoldia secunda Dall, 1916b, 
[Synonym]
References: Bernard (1983) s
Comments: Nude name in Dall (1916a).

Yoldia thraciaformis sic, 
[Not available]
References: Bernard (1983) s


Partial List of References

Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
Storer, D. H. 1838. Description of a new species of Nucula from Massachusetts Bay Boston Journal of Natural History 2 122-125. [Stated date: -- Feb 1838.]

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