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