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

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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