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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

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

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