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 mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, 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 willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Leda catasarca, Leda trumani, Leda parkei, Leda discors, Leda scalata, Leda subquadrata, Leda opulenta, Leda transversa, Leda deffneri, Leda reussi, Leda gabrielis, Leda pistorupes, Leda sulcellata, Leda calcarensis, Leda claviformis, Leda vanuxemi, Leda cochlearella, Leda borsoni, Leda decorata, Leda nitida, Leda coelatoides, Leda zelima, Leda ingens, Leda elliptica, Leda semistriata, Leda carolinensis, Leda doris, Leda minuta, Leda wissmanniana, Leda leia, Leda whitfieldi, Leda polynominata, Leda alkiensis, Leda vaticani, Leda wautubbeana, Leda protexta, Leda (Spinula), Leda houstonia, Leda zitteli, Leda coelata, Leda ozarkola, Leda radiata, Leda praeradiata, Leda becki, Leda subtrigona, Leda schiavi, Leda (Lembulus), Leda lacryma, Leda renevieri, Leda barranca, Leda kittensis, Leda lincolnensis, Leda obolella, Leda haunsbergensis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda pygmaea, Leda distincta, Leda striatella, Leda striatula, Leda semipolita, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda stewardi, Leda bavarica, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda semenoides, Leda minuta, Leda crassiparva, Leda caudata, Leda magna, Leda glabra, Leda plana, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda rangei, Leda projecta, Leda scutula, Leda (Leda), Leda dijki, Leda magnopsis, Leda excavata, Crassoleda crassatelloides
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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