Nuculana triangulata Meyer 1886 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda triangulata

Belongs to Nuculana according to D. T. Dockery 1982

Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, 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 gabbii, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, 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 trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda (Lembulus), Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda lincolnensis, Leda becki, Leda vanuxemi, Leda discors, Leda borsoni, Leda minuta, Leda projecta, Leda excavata, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda plana, Leda pistorupes, Leda decorata, Leda transversa, Leda ingens, Leda dijki, Leda bavarica, Leda protexta, Leda houstonia, Leda ozarkola, Leda praeradiata, Leda opulenta, Leda subtrigona, Leda cochlearella, Leda leia, Leda rangei, Leda alkiensis, Leda subquadrata, Leda parkei, Leda barranca, Leda distincta, Leda elliptica, Leda striatella, Leda magna, Leda wissmanniana, Leda crassiparva, Leda scutula, Leda lacryma, Leda doris, Leda coelatoides, Leda magnopsis, Leda calcarensis, Leda schiavi, Leda reussi, Leda sulcellata, Leda catasarca, Leda trumani, Leda radiata, Leda semenoides, Leda zelima, Leda renevieri, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda stewardi, Leda semipolita, Leda kittensis, Leda obolella, Leda gabrielis, Leda scalata, Leda whitfieldi, Leda vaticani, Leda glabra, Leda (Leda), Leda deffneri, Leda claviformis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda zitteli, Leda semistriata, Leda wautubbeana, Leda pygmaea, Leda minuta, Leda nitida, Leda coelata, Leda (Spinula), Leda striatula, Leda caudata, Leda carolinensis

Type specimen: USNM 644597, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculana triangulata in the database

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