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

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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