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]
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| Yoldia sapotilla | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Nuculanida |
| Family: | Yoldiidae |
| Genus: | Yoldia Möller, 1842[1] |
Species edit
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 edit
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Yoldia Möller, 1842. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at [1] on 2016-10-06
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Yoldia Möller, 1842. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at [2] on 2016-10-06
- ^ Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1981), p. 2653.
- ^ Beatriz Badorrey Martín, "Alfonso de Aguirre y Yoldi[permanent dead link]," Diccionario Biográfico Español.
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