Nuculana minuta Müller 1776 (minute nutclam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Arca minuta

Belongs to Nuculana according to H. G. Richards 1962

See also Hendy 2020, Hendy 2021 and Moore 1983

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Col Rodella, Campitello (Muschelkalk Fm.), which is in an Anisian carbonate limestone in Italy

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Greenland (2), Iceland (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: California)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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