Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combinations: Arca pernula, Leda pernula, Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula
Synonyms: Arca rostrata Bruguiére 1789, Leda buccata Müller 1842, Leda rostrata Bruguiére 1789, Nucula jacksoni Gould 1841, Nuculana buccata Müller 1842, Nuculana jacksoni Gould 1841, Nuculana rostrata Bruguiére 1789
Belongs to Nuculana according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Givens and Kennedy 1976, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hendy et al. 2008, Moore 1983, Richards 1962 and Wood 1850
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 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 (Leda), Leda striatella, Leda zelima, Leda dijki, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda magnopsis, Leda minuta, Leda striatula, Leda barranca, Leda carolinensis, Leda leia, Leda semistriata, Leda zitteli, Leda wautubbeana, Leda truncata, Leda ingens, Leda parkei, Leda nitida, Leda glabra, Leda semipolita, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda caudata, Leda vaticani, Leda whitfieldi, Leda catasarca, Leda decorata, Leda trumani, Leda radiata, Leda renevieri, Leda pistorupes, Leda longifrons, Leda vanuxemi, Leda deffneri, Leda cochlearella, Leda praeradiata, Leda becki, Leda projecta, Leda claviformis, Leda stewardi, Leda schiavi, Leda plana, Leda discors, Leda rangei, Leda scutula, Leda coelatoides, Leda ozarkola, Leda houstonia, Leda transversa, Leda willamettensis, Leda alkiensis, Leda wissmanniana, Leda doris, Leda kittensis, Leda subquadrata, Leda (Spinula), Leda pygmaea, Leda gabrielis, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda calcarensis, Leda crassiparva, Leda opulenta, Leda minuta, Leda magna, Leda scalata, Leda semenoides, Leda subtrigona, Leda reussi, Leda sulcellata, Leda elliptica, Leda borsoni, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda excavata, Leda polynominata, Leda bavarica, Leda lacryma, Leda coelata, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda distincta, Leda (Lembulus), Leda obolella
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (23: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario collections), Greenland (4), Ireland (1), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Maine)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 40 collections including 44 occurrences
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