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