Yoldia
Yoldia sapotilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculanida
Family: Yoldiidae
Genus: Yoldia
Möller, 1842[1]

Yoldia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Yoldiidae.[2] It was named after Alfonso de Aguirre y Yoldi, Conde de Yoldi (1764–1852), a Spanish nobleman in charge of the royal naturalistic collection of Denmark.[3][4]

Species

Species within the genus Yoldia include:

  • Yoldia aeolica (Valenciennes, 1846)
  • Yoldia amygdalea Valenciennes, 1846
  • Yoldia aurata Lan & Lee, 2001
  • Yoldia bartschi Scarlato, 1981
  • Yoldia cooperii Gabb, 1865
  • Yoldia glauca Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
  • Yoldia hyperborea (Gould, 1841)
  • Yoldia johanni Dall, 1925
  • Yoldia keppeliana G. B. Sowerby III, 1904
  • Yoldia kikuchii Kuroda, 1929
  • Yoldia lata (Hinds, 1843)
  • Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831)
  • Yoldia micrometrica Seguenza G., 1877
  • Yoldia myalis (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Yoldia notabilis Yokoyama, 1922
  • Yoldia pygmaea (Muenster, 1835)
  • Yoldia sapotilla (Gould, 1841)
  • Yoldia similis Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
  • Yoldia thraciaeformis Storer, 1838
  • Yoldia toporoki Scarlato, 1981

References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Yoldia Möller, 1842. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2016-10-06
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Yoldia Möller, 1842. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2016-10-06
  3. Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1981), p. 2653.
  4. Beatriz Badorrey Martín, "Alfonso de Aguirre y Yoldi," Diccionario Biográfico Español.


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