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