Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
Alternative spelling: Politoleda
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Jung 1965
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Costelloleda), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, 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, Leda caudata, Leda crassiparva, Leda claviformis, Leda leia, Leda semipolita, Leda (Spinula), Leda houstonia, Leda wissmanniana, Leda (Lembulus), Leda praeradiata, Leda sulcellata, Leda semistriata, Leda ingens, Leda carolinensis, Leda radiata, Leda barranca, Leda lacryma, Leda scutula, Leda willamettensis, Leda zelima, Leda plana, Leda pistorupes, Leda reussi, Leda ozarkola, Leda obolella, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda excavata, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda striatula, Leda zitteli, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda polynominata, Leda coelata, Leda cochlearella, Leda magnopsis, Leda truncata, Leda becki, Leda wautubbeana, Leda gabrielis, Leda alkiensis, Leda dijki, Leda renevieri, Leda transversa, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda vanuxemi, Leda nitida, Leda bavarica, Leda whitfieldi, Leda subquadrata, Leda kittensis, Leda scalata, Leda coelatoides, Leda rangei, Leda doris, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda trumani, Leda vaticani, Leda discors, Leda semenoides, Leda longifrons, Leda distincta, Leda opulenta, Leda elliptica, Leda deffneri, Leda projecta, Leda pygmaea, Leda parkei, Leda striatella, Leda stewardi, Leda borsoni, Leda glabra, Leda catasarca, Leda minuta, Leda (Leda), Leda minuta, Leda schiavi, Leda decorata, Leda magna, Leda subtrigona, Leda calcarensis, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Politoleda) forcarti Politoleda polita
Type: Nucula polita
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
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