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