Nuculana forcarti Jung 1965 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652

Belongs to Nuculana according to P. Jung 1965

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculana forcarti in the database

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.