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

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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