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Nuculana

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Species
Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda (Leda), Leda (Lembulus), Leda (Spinula), Leda alkiensis, Leda barranca, Leda bavarica, Leda becki, Leda borsoni, Leda calcarensis, Leda carolinensis, Leda catasarca, Leda caudata, Leda claviformis, Leda cochlearella, Leda coelata, Leda coelatoides, Leda crassiparva, Leda decorata, Leda deffneri, Leda dijki, Leda discors (syn. Leda ehrlichi), Leda distincta, Leda doris, Leda elliptica (syn. Nucula tenuis), Leda excavata, Leda gabrielis, Leda glabra, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda houstonia, Leda ingens, Leda kittensis, Leda lacryma, Leda leia, Leda lincolnensis, Leda magna, Leda magnopsis, Leda minuta, Leda minuta, Leda nitida, Leda obolella, Leda opulenta, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda ozarkola, Leda parkei, Leda pistorupes, Leda plana, Leda praeradiata, Leda projecta, Leda protexta, Leda pygmaea, Leda radiata, Leda rangei, Leda renevieri, Leda reussi, Leda scalata, Leda schiavi, Leda scutula, Leda semenoides, Leda semipolita, Leda semistriata, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda stewardi, Leda striatella, Leda striatula, Leda subquadrata, Leda subtrigona (syn. Nucula nuda), Leda subtrigonalis, Leda sulcellata, Leda transversa, Leda trumani, Leda vanuxemi, Leda vaticani, Leda wautubbeana, Leda whitfieldi, Leda wissmanniana, Leda zelima, Leda zitteli, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, N. (Borissia), N. (Costanuculana), N. (Dacryomya), N. (Nuculana), N. (Politoleda), N. (Praesaccella), N. (Scaeoleda), N. (Tenuileda), N. (Thestyleda), N. acuta, N. acutilineata, N. akidota, N. alpina, N. andrewi, N. antarctirostrata, N. asiatica, N. biangulata, N. chapmani (syn. Leda apiculata), N. coelatella, N. concentrica, N. cowlitzensis, N. crassiparva, N. cultellus, N. cuneata, N. curvirostris, N. decora, N. dewalquei, N. doris, N. elmana, N. emarginata, N. etheridgei, N. excavata, N. fluvilutea, N. forcarti, N. gabbii, N. gnomon, N. gracillima, N. grasslei, N. jamaicensis, N. konishii, N. liciata, N. mariae, N. miaocunensis, N. minima, N. minuta, N. moriyai, N. multilineata, N. oxia, N. oxyrhyncha, N. parkei, N. parva, N. pernula (syn. Leda buccata, N. jacksoni, N. rostrata), N. posterolaevia, N. probellula, N. redondoensis, N. rostellata, N. rostratruncata, N. semen, N. semicrenulata, N. smithvillensis, N. socialis, N. spheniopsis, N. sphenopsis, N. thompsoni, N. timorensis, N. triangulata, N. trivitate, N. trumani, N. undulostriata, N. verrilliana, N. vexillata, N. virgo, N. vitrea, N. waterhousei, N. wautebbeana, N. wautubbeana, N. waynensis, N. whitmani, N. willetti, N. williamettensis, N. zieteni

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1807Nuculana Link
1817Leda Schumacher
1895Leda Stanton p. 51
1904Leda Glenn p. 395
1913Leda Böhm and Weisfermel p. 66
1913Nucula (Leda) Krumbeck
1922Leda Woods p. 61
1928Leda Nagao p. 24
1931Nuculana Grant, IV and Gale p. 118
1931Leda Olsson p. 36
1938Nuculana Turner p. 42
1944Nuculana Durham p. 134
1945Nuculana Gardner p. 43
1951Nuculana Eames p. 322
1958Nuculana DuBar p. 153
1964Nuculana Faustman p. 113
1969Crassoleda Savitskii p. 93
1972Nuculana Hertlein and Grant p. 148
1973Nuculana Marasti p. 99
1976Nuculana Givens and Kennedy p. 973
1980Nuculana Vokes p. 6
1980Crassoleda Vokes p. 221
1982Nuculana Dockery p. 28
1983Nuculana Moore p. A13
1984Nuculana Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska p. 93
1984Nuculana Squires p. 41
1987Nuculana Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1992Nuculana Maxwell
1995Nuculana Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 51
1998Nuculana Lamprell and Healy p. 36
1999Leda Broglio Loriga et al. p. 61
1999Nuculana Squires p. 23
1999Nuculana Wienrich p. 208
2000Nuculana Camacho et al. p. 67
2000Nuculana Coan et al. p. 83
2001Nuculana Todd
2002Nuculana Sepkoski
2004Nuculana Stilwell et al. p. 17
2006Nuculana El Qot p. 17
2006Nuculana Kiel p. 130
2007Nuculana Kiel and Goedert p. 46
2010Leda Bouchet et al.
2010Nuculana Bouchet et al.
2014Nuculana Ros-Franch et al.
2016Nuculana Wild and Stilwell p. 963

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
Eubivalvia
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculaniformiiCarter et al. 2000
orderNuculanida(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamilyNuculanoideaAdams and Adams 1858
familyNuculanidaeAdams and Adams 1858
genusNuculanaLink 1807

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Nuculana Link 1807
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Subg. Nuculana (Costanuculana) Habe 1951
Subg. †Nuculana (Dacryomya) Agassiz 1840
Subg. Nuculana (Nuculana) Link 1807
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Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola Kendrick and Vartak 2007
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Invalid names: Leda (Leda) loshka Dall 1908 [synonym]
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Invalid names: Leda amiata Dall 1916 [synonym], Leda liogona Dall 1916 [synonym]
Nuculana (Nuculana) odiyamensis Kendrick and Vartak 2007
Nuculana (Nuculana) senni Kugler et al. 1984
Invalid names: Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta praecursor Arnold 1903 [synonym]
Subg. Nuculana (Politoleda) Hertlein and Strong 1940
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Politoleda polita Sowerby 1833
Subg. †Nuculana (Praesaccella) Cox 1940
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Subg. Nuculana (Scaeoleda) Iredale 1924
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Scaeoleda crebricostata Tenison Woods 1877
Scaeoleda woodsii Tate 1886
Subg. Nuculana (Tenuileda) Habe 1977
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Invalid names: Leda gomphoidea Dall 1916 [synonym]
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 [pointed nut clam]
Nuculana acutilineata Hybertsen and Kiel 2018
Nuculana akidota Dockery 1982
Nuculana alpina Winkler 1859
Nuculana andrewi Marwick 1931
Nuculana antarctirostrata Stilwell et al. 2004
Nuculana asiatica Kurushin 1985
Nuculana biangulata Easton 1962
Nuculana chapmani Finlay 1924
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Invalid names: Leda apiculata Tate 1886 [replaced]
Nuculana concentrica Say 1824 [Concentric Nut Clam]
Nuculana cowlitzensis Weaver and Palmer 1922
Nuculana cultellus von Koenen 1897
Nuculana cuneata Sowerby 1833
Nuculana curvirostris de Cserna 1961
Nuculana decora Adams 1856
Nuculana dewalquei Terquem and Piette 1868
Nuculana doris d'Orbigny 1849
Nuculana elmana Etherington 1931
Nuculana emarginata Lamarck 1819
Nuculana etheridgei Maxwell 1964
Nuculana excavata Goldfuss 1837
Nuculana fluvilutea Marwick 1931
Nuculana forcarti Jung 1965
Nuculana gabbii Conrad 1866
Nuculana gnomon Jung 1965
Nuculana gracillima Jung 1965
Nuculana grasslei Allen 1993
Nuculana jamaicensis d'Orbigny 1853 [Jamaican Nut Clam]
Nuculana konishii Hayami 1961
Nuculana liciata Conrad 1843
Nuculana mariae d'Orbigny 1844
Nuculana miaocunensis Chen 1976
Nuculana minima Sowerby 1812
Nuculana minuta Müller 1776
Nuculana moriyai Marincovich, Jr. 1993
Nuculana oxia Dall 1916
Nuculana oxyrhyncha Philippi 1887
Nuculana parkei Anderson and Hanna 1925
Nuculana parva Jung 1965
Nuculana pernula Müller 1779
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Invalid names: Leda buccata Müller 1842 [synonym], Nuculana jacksoni Gould 1841 [synonym], Nuculana rostrata Bruguiére 1789 [synonym]
Nuculana posterolaevia Kiel and Goedert 2007
Nuculana probellula Marwick 1929
Nuculana redondoensis Burch 1944
Nuculana rostellata Conrad 1841
Nuculana rostratruncata Gardner 1916
Nuculana semen Smith 1885 [Seed Nut Clam]
Nuculana semicrenulata Trechmann 1917
Nuculana socialis Stoliczka 1871
Nuculana thompsoni Cox 1965
Nuculana timorensis Krumbeck 1924
Nuculana triangulata Meyer 1886
Nuculana undulostriata Fletcher 1945
Nuculana verrilliana Dall 1886 [Barbed Nut Clam]
Nuculana vexillata Marwick 1953
Nuculana virgo Martin 1879
Nuculana vitrea d'Orbigny 1853 [Glassy Nut Clam]
Nuculana waterhousei Etheridge 1888
Nuculana waynensis Mansfield 1940
Nuculana whitmani Dall 1909
Nuculana willetti Marwick 1953
Nuculana zieteni Brauns 1871
Invalid names: Crassoleda Savitskii 1969 [synonym], Leda Schumacher 1817 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available