Nucula calcicola

Author
Moore, 1977
Common Names
  • Reef Nut Clam

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Min Depth
1 meters
Max Depth
11 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Florida Keys to Quintana Roo, Mexico, Belize, US Virgin Islands, BA, Bahamas
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • infaunal
References

  • Camp, D. K., W. G. Lyons, and T. H. Perkins. 1998. Checklists of selected shallow-water marine invertebrates of Florida. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, FMRI Technical Report TR-3. 238 pp.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M., and R. Bieler. 2000. Marine bivalves of the Florida Keys: discovered biodiversity. Pp. 367–387 in E. M. Harper, J. D. Taylor, and J. A. Crame, eds. The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia [Proceedings of the “Biology and Evolution of the Bivalvia”, an international symposium organized by the Malacological Society of London, 14–17 September 1999, Cambridge, UK]. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 177.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M., and R. Bieler. 2004. Critical catalog and annotated bibliography of marine bivalve records for the Florida Keys. Malacologia 46(2): 545–623.

  • Moore, D. R. 1977. Small species of Nuculanidae (Bivalvia) from the tropical western Atlantic. The Nautilus 91(4): 119–128.

Endnotes

  • Type locale: Chancanab Lagoon, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-11-2024.

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