Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: H. Douvillé. 1916. Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez. Mémoire de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 54(2):1-184

Belongs to Leda according to H. Douvillé 1916

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gebel Aroussieh (Small Astartes), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in Egypt

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gebel Aroussieh (Small Astartes)

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