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 truncata, Leda transversa, Leda discors, Leda dijki, Leda semipolita, Leda vanuxemi, Leda borsoni, Leda cochlearella, Leda minuta, Leda magnopsis, Leda subquadrata, Leda becki, Leda magna, Leda trumani, Leda stewardi, Leda kittensis, Leda willamettensis, Leda opulenta, Leda obolella, Leda leia, Leda distincta, Leda alkiensis, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda (Spinula), Leda (Leda), Leda sulcellata, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda gabrielis, Leda deffneri, Leda wautubbeana, Leda ozarkola, Leda plana, Leda projecta, Leda scutula, Leda minuta, Leda caudata, Leda semistriata, Leda renevieri, Leda radiata, Leda doris, Leda vaticani, Leda barranca, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda praeradiata, Leda coelatoides, Leda semenoides, Leda houstonia, Leda zitteli, Leda claviformis, Leda excavata, Leda striatula, Leda parkei, Leda lacryma, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda (Lembulus), Leda rangei, Leda longifrons, Leda calcarensis, Leda polynominata, Leda striatella, Leda pygmaea, Leda carolinensis, Leda elliptica, Leda catasarca, Leda scalata, Leda crassiparva, Leda pistorupes, Leda glabra, Leda schiavi, Leda whitfieldi, Leda coelata, Leda bavarica, Leda subtrigona, Leda wissmanniana, Leda ingens, Leda reussi, Leda decorata, Leda zelima, Leda nitida

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (3 collections)

• Eocene of Indonesia (1)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.