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