Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative spellings: Leda (Thestyleda), Thestyleda

Parent taxon: Nuculana according to J. A. Todd 2001

See also Coan et al. 2000, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980

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

Subtaxa: Nuculana (Thestyleda) ramsayi Thestyleda investigator

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

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