Ennucula musculosa Anelli et al. 2006 (nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: L. E. Anelli, A. C. Rocha-Campos, P. R. Santos, J. A. J. Perinotto, and F. Quaglio. 2006. Early Miocene bivalves from the Cape Melville Formation, King George Island, West Antarctic. Alcheringa 30(1):111-132

Belongs to Ennucula according to L. E. Anelli et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Ennucula aegeensis, Ennucula cardara, Ennucula colombiana, Ennucula convexa, Ennucula corbuloides, Ennucula cumingii, Ennucula dalmasi, Ennucula delphinodonta, Ennucula frigida, Ennucula grayi, Ennucula linki, Ennucula mirifica, Ennucula niponica, Ennucula nuculana, Ennucula obliqua, Ennucula puelcha, Ennucula siberutensis, Ennucula strangei, Ennucula superba, Ennucula tenisoni, Ennucula tenuis, Ennucula uruguayensis, Ennucula whatu, Nucula (Ennucula) docilis

Type specimen: GP/IT 2039, a shell. Its type locality is Cape Melville Fm -Penguin Rookery section, King George Island, which is in a Miocene offshore sandstone in the Cape Melville Formation of Antarctica.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cape Melville Fm -Penguin Rookery section, King George Island

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