Nuculana virgo Martin 1879 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combinations: Leda virgo, Nuculana (Saccella) virgo

Belongs to Nuculana according to P. N. Mukerjee 1939

See also Skwarko 1994

Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda dijki, Leda vaticani, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda cochlearella, Leda catasarca, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda borsoni, Leda excavata, Leda scalata, Leda sulcellata, Leda alkiensis, Leda kittensis, Leda coelata, Leda magna, Leda coelatoides, Leda wautubbeana, Leda ozarkola, Leda wissmanniana, Leda carolinensis, Leda claviformis, Leda transversa, Leda elliptica, Leda renevieri, Leda houstonia, Leda minuta, Leda (Spinula), Leda leia, Leda crassiparva, Leda semenoides, Leda pistorupes, Leda opulenta, Leda trumani, Leda ingens, Leda zelima, Leda radiata, Leda barranca, Leda subtrigona, Leda rangei, Leda calcarensis, Leda glabra, Leda willamettensis, Leda plana, Leda decorata, Leda stewardi, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda projecta, Leda deffneri, Leda parkei, Leda bavarica, Leda (Leda), Leda pygmaea, Leda lacryma, Leda longifrons, Leda magnopsis, Leda striatula, Leda minuta, Leda scutula, Leda caudata, Leda vanuxemi, Leda nitida, Leda zitteli, Leda striatella, Leda reussi, Leda (Lembulus), Leda doris, Leda subquadrata, Leda discors, Leda schiavi, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda gabrielis, Leda praeradiata, Leda distincta, Leda semipolita, Leda polynominata, Leda semistriata, Leda becki, Leda obolella, Leda whitfieldi

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (3 collections)

• Eocene of Indonesia (1)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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