Nuculana socialis Stoliczka 1871 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Belongs to Nuculana according to T. J. Wild and J. D. Stilwell 2016

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Batavia Knoll (Cretaceous of Indian Ocean)

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