Leda kittensis Harris 1919 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: G. D. Harris. 1919. Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages. Bulletins of American Paleontology 6(31):1-208

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

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

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