Nuculana whitmani Dall 1909 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda (Lembulus) whitmani

Belongs to Nuculana according to U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale 1931

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculana whitmani in the database

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