Nuculana cuneata Sowerby 1833 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula cuneata

Belongs to Nuculana according to G. Rosenberg 2005

See also Rivadeneira and Carmona 2008

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Caleta Patillos

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