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