Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combinations: Leda acuta, Nucula acuta, Nuculana (Saccella) acuta, Saccella acuta
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 gabbii, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, 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 willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda deffneri, Leda calcarensis, Leda minuta, Leda vanuxemi, Leda coelatoides, Leda radiata, Leda parkei, Leda becki, Leda transversa, Leda scalata, Leda zitteli, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda barranca, Leda leia, Leda trumani, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda opulenta, Leda lacryma, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda projecta, Leda striatella, Leda renevieri, Leda vaticani, Leda semenoides, Leda stewardi, Leda wautubbeana, Leda subquadrata, Leda coelata, Leda ingens, Leda ozarkola, Leda whitfieldi, Leda discors, Leda magnopsis, Leda pistorupes, Leda lincolnensis, Leda obolella, Leda praeradiata, Leda subtrigona, Leda excavata, Leda distincta, Leda gabrielis, Leda (Spinula), Leda magna, Leda (Lembulus), Leda semipolita, Leda alkiensis, Leda decorata, Leda houstonia, Leda kittensis, Leda crassiparva, Leda glabra, Leda bavarica, Leda (Leda), Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda doris, Leda cochlearella, Leda claviformis, Leda borsoni, Leda semistriata, Leda pygmaea, Leda dijki, Leda protexta, Leda zelima, Leda schiavi, Leda elliptica, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda nitida, Leda minuta, Leda catasarca, Leda caudata, Leda plana, Leda rangei, Leda scutula, Leda striatula, Leda reussi, Leda wissmanniana, Leda carolinensis, Leda sulcellata
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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