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Nucula

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Nu´cu`la
n.1.(Zool.) A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.


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[FIGURE 9 OMITTED] The thickness of the mantle and thickness of the epithelial layer for each mantle zone illustrated the trend of reduction from the marginal zone to the apical zone in Mytilus edulis, Cardium edulis, Nucula sulcata (Bubel 1973), Scapharca broughtonii (Lee 2002), and Tegillarca granosa (Ma and Lee 2003).
In the 1930s, her potential as a researcher was recognised at the Marine Biological Station, Plymouth, where she studied the mollusc Nucula.
In the lower part of the Paadla Formation (Sauvere Beds), only rare specimens of the brachiopods Didyinothyris didyina (Dalman), Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula (Sowerby), and Estonirhynchia sp.
 
 
 
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