Leda striatella Ponzi 1876 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: G. Ponzi. 1876. I fossile del Monte Vaticano. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie Seconda 3(2):925-959

Belongs to Leda according to G. Ponzi 1876

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano, which is in a Zanclean deep-water marl in the Monte Vaticano Formation of Holy See (Vatican City State)

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cava Vannutelli quarry, Monte Vaticano

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