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

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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