Leda caudata Donovan 1802 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Arca caudata

Belongs to Leda according to S. V. Wood 1850

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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