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

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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