Leda houstonia Harris 1895 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Belongs to Leda according to G. D. Harris 1919

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Leda houstonia in the database

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