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 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 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 schiavi, Leda claviformis, Leda pistorupes, Leda crassiparva, Leda willamettensis, Leda coelatoides, Leda subquadrata, Leda gabrielis, Leda pygmaea, Leda striatella, Leda truncata, Leda scutula, Leda sulcellata, Leda scalata, Leda stewardi, Leda kittensis, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda zelima, Leda plana, Leda (Spinula), Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda semistriata, Leda leia, Leda opulenta, Leda calcarensis, Leda renevieri, Leda becki, Leda transversa, Leda elliptica, Leda longifrons, Leda (Lembulus), Leda vanuxemi, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda semenoides, Leda semipolita, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda minuta, Leda nitida, Leda praeradiata, Leda ingens, Leda alkiensis, Leda wautubbeana, Leda vaticani, Leda excavata, Leda barranca, Leda wissmanniana, Leda striatula, Leda caudata, Leda magna, Leda magnopsis, Leda polynominata, Leda projecta, Leda minuta, Leda doris, Leda coelata, Leda carolinensis, Leda parkei, Leda rangei, Leda dijki, Leda zitteli, Leda discors, Leda houstonia, Leda distincta, Leda cochlearella, Leda catasarca, Leda deffneri, Leda reussi, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda obolella, Leda trumani, Leda bavarica, Leda borsoni, Leda ozarkola, Leda glabra, Leda subtrigona, Leda lacryma, Leda whitfieldi, Leda decorata, Leda radiata, Leda (Leda)
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 (2: California, 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: 74 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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