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

Subtaxa: Nuculana (Thestyleda) ramsayi Thestyleda investigator

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

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