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

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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