Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combinations: Leda acuta, Nucula acuta, Nuculana (Saccella) acuta, Saccella acuta
Synonym: Leda unca Gould 1862
Belongs to Nuculana according to P. M. Mikkelsen and R. Bieler 2008
See also DuBar 1958, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hendy et al. 2008, Holmes 1860, Richards 1962 and Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, 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 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 praeradiata, Leda ingens, Leda becki, Leda radiata, Leda trumani, Leda zitteli, Leda subquadrata, Leda pistorupes, Leda longifrons, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda caudata, Leda striatella, Leda wissmanniana, Leda sulcellata, Leda calcarensis, Leda excavata, Leda stewardi, Leda claviformis, Leda cochlearella, Leda polynominata, Leda reussi, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda kittensis, Leda nitida, Leda opulenta, Leda doris, Leda semenoides, Leda catasarca, Leda semipolita, Leda transversa, Leda barranca, Leda ozarkola, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda obolella, Leda (Lembulus), Leda vanuxemi, Leda decorata, Leda carolinensis, Leda coelatoides, Leda scalata, Leda truncata, Leda dijki, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda rangei, Leda elliptica, Leda gabrielis, Leda minuta, Leda pygmaea, Leda whitfieldi, Leda semistriata, Leda leia, Leda (Leda), Leda subtrigona, Leda crassiparva, Leda lacryma, Leda vaticani, Leda borsoni, Leda projecta, Leda plana, Leda magnopsis, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda wautubbeana, Leda discors, Leda magna, Leda deffneri, Leda houstonia, Leda glabra, Leda renevieri, Leda bavarica, Leda coelata, Leda schiavi, Leda parkei, Leda alkiensis, Leda striatula, Leda distincta, Leda scutula, Leda (Spinula), Leda willamettensis, Leda zelima, Leda minuta
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Panama (1), United States (46: Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of United States (17: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (4: Florida)
• Jurassic of Somalia (1)
Total: 73 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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