Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative combinations: Arca nucleus, Nucula nucleus
Belongs to Nucula (Nucula) according to M. Huber 2010
See also Coan et al. 2000 and Wood 1850
Sister taxa: Nucula (Nucula) archiaci, Nucula (Nucula) bidorsata, Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis, Nucula (Nucula) capayensis, Nucula (Nucula) cooperi, Nucula (Nucula) cromata, Nucula (Nucula) declivis, Nucula (Nucula) donaciformis, Nucula (Nucula) fragilis, Nucula (Nucula) hanleyi, Nucula (Nucula) magnifica, Nucula (Nucula) mariae, Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis, Nucula (Nucula) mediavia, Nucula (Nucula) mirada, Nucula (Nucula) mixta, Nucula (Nucula) nitidula, Nucula (Nucula) nitidulaformis, Nucula (Nucula) ovula, Nucula (Nucula) profundorum, Nucula (Nucula) proxima, Nucula (Nucula) schencki, Nucula (Nucula) sericea, Nucula (Nucula) smithvillensis, Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis, Nucula (Nucula) sulcata, Nucula (Nucula) tenuisculpta, Nucula (Nucula) trigonula, Nucula (Nucula) vieta, Nucula (Nucula) vitis, Nucula (Nucula) zophos, Nucula (Nucula) zwierzyckii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), France (1), Greenland (2), Italy (3), the Netherlands (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Greece (1), the United Kingdom (8)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (5), Germany (16), Italy (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), Slovakia (3)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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