NUCULANIDAE, H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858

Coan, Eugene V., Pacaud, Jean-Michel & Kabat, Alan R., 2024, Gérard-Paul Deshayes (1796 - 1875) and his taxa, Geodiversitas 46 (16), pp. 553-930 : 698

Family NUCULANIDAE

H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 [1854]

althei, Leda – Deshayes, 1858-TraitElem: 283. Replacement name for Nucula (Dacryomya) brevirostris Alth, 1850 ( Alth 1850: 233, pl. 12, fig. 16), non J. Phillips, 1836. — Type locality: Lemberg [Lviv, Ukraine]. — Type age: Cretaceous? – Current status: taxon inquirendum.

costulata , Leda –Deshayes, 1858-DescrCoqFoss: 65, pl. 65, figs 8-10; 1860-DescrCoqFoss: 829. — Type locality: Acy-en-Multien. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). Nuculana (Saccella) costulata ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 80) . — Current status: Striatonuculana costulata (Deshayes, 1858) ( Marquet et al. 2012: 13) .

dunkeri , Leda – Deshayes, 1858-TraitElem: 281. Replacement name for Nucula cuneata Koch & Dunker, 1837 ( Koch & Dunker 1837: 31-32, pl. 2, fig. 8a-c), non G. B. Sowerby I, 1833, nec J. Phillips, 1836; nec Münster, in Goldfuss, 1837. — Type locality: Geertzen; Inferior Oolite [Middle Jurassic]. — Current status: taxon inquirendum.

fragilis , Arca – Deshayes, 1858-TraitElem: 285-286, ex Chemnitz ms. — Type locality: Europe. — Type age: Neogene. — Type species (OD) of Ledina Sacco, 1898 [December], non Ledina Dall, 1898 [October]; Sacco’s genus was renamed Saccella Woodring, 1925 . — Current status: synonym of Saccella commutata (Philippi, 1844) [ Nucula ] ( Coan & Kabat 2017: 46). Figured in Nevesskaja et al. (2013: 85, fig. 10-5).

gracilis , Leda –Deshayes, 1858-DescrCoqFoss: 64, pl. 64, figs 24-26; 1860-DescrCoqFoss: 831-832. — Type localities: Jeurre, Etréchy & Morigny-Champigny; Neueul & Délémont, Switzerland; Kaufungen near Kassel, Germany. — Type age: Oligocene (Rupelian). Nuculana (Saccella) gracilis Deshayes, 1858 ) ( Glibert & Van de Poel 1965a: 21). — Current status: Saccella westendorpi [Nyst, 1839] gracilis (Deshayes, 1858) ( Marquet et al. 2012: 13, pl. 1, fig. 3).

morrisii , Leda – Deshayes, 1858-TraitElem: 282. Replacement name for Nucula (Leda) phillipsii J. Morris , in Mantell, 1850 ( Mantell 1850: 318, pl. 30, fig. 1), non M’Coy, in Griffith, 1844. — Type locality: near Trowbridge. — Type age: Oxford Clay [Jurassic] (Callovian-Oxfordian). — Current status: Mesosaccella morrisii (Deshayes, 1858) ( Fürsich & Pan 2014: 6, 10, pl. 1, figs 1-3, as “1853”).

mucronalis, Nucula –Deshayes, 1839-TraitElem: 21, pl. 34, figs 14- 15, evidently intended as a replacement name but not so stat- ed. — Type locality: none given. — Type age: not stated. Deshayes (1858-TraitElem: 280-281) noted that this the same as what was later proposed for Leda diana d’Orbigny, 1850a (d’Orbigny 1850a: 253, no. 177), for Nucula mucronata J. de C. Sowerby, 1824 , of Goldfuss (1837: 155-156, pl. 125, fig. 9), non J. de C. Sowerby, 1824. Germany. — Type age: Jurassic (Toarcian). — Current status: taxon inquirendum.

prisca , Leda – Deshayes, 1858-DescrCoqFoss: 65, pl. 65, figs 15-17; 1860-DescrCoqFoss: 830. — Type locality: Châlons-sur-Vesle. — Type age: Paleocene (Thanetian). — Current status: Nuculana (Jupiteria) prisca ( Glibert & Van de Poel 1965a: 26; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 80).

woodiana , Leda – Deshayes, 1858-TraitElem: 287. — Type locality: northern Europe species that had long been going under the fossil name Leda pygmea (Münster, in Goldfuss, 1837) [ Nucula ]. — Type age: Recent. — Current status:Synonym of Yoldiella philippiana (Nyst, 1845) [ Nucula ], a replacement name for Nucula tenuis Philippi, 1836 , non N. tenuis (Montagu, 1808) [ Arca ] ( Coan & Kabat 2017: 48).