Nuculana minima Sowerby 1812 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Belongs to Nuculana according to Sowerby 1812

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Iraq (1 collection)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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