Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 (pointed nut clam)

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

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

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