Nucula pilkeyi Ward and Blackwelder 1987 (nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283

Belongs to Nucula according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxa: Nucula (Deminucula), Nucula (Gibbonucula), Nucula (Lamellinucula), Nucula (Linucula), Nucula (Nucula), Nucula (Pronucula), Nucula (Rumptunucula), Nucula (Varinucula), Nucula acutula, Nucula alcocki, Nucula amica, Nucula andersoni, Nucula assiniboiensis, Nucula athabaskensis, Nucula bifida, Nucula bocconis, Nucula brewsterensis, Nucula calcicola, Nucula cancellata, Nucula cancellata, Nucula carantana, Nucula catalina, Nucula certisinus, Nucula chargensis, Nucula coelata, Nucula complanata, Nucula concinna, Nucula cordata, Nucula cossmanni, Nucula costaeimbricatis, Nucula crenulata, Nucula crepida, Nucula curvata, Nucula darella, Nucula delphinodonta, Nucula dimidiata, Nucula domandaensis, Nucula eightsii, Nucula etheridgei, Nucula excavata, Nucula expansa, Nucula gabbiana, Nucula goldfussii, Nucula greppini, Nucula hannibali, Nucula hausmanni, Nucula impressa, Nucula inflata, Nucula isosceles, Nucula joanniswanneri, Nucula karatsuensis, Nucula lateralis, Nucula latissima, Nucula lucida, Nucula major, Nucula mancorensis, Nucula margaritifera, Nucula martini, Nucula matani, Nucula mayeri, Nucula micheleae, Nucula monroensis, Nucula morundiana, Nucula mucronata, Nucula munsteri, Nucula narica, Nucula nejdensis, Nucula nitidosa, Nucula nizenensis, Nucula njalindungensis, Nucula observatoria, Nucula obtusa, Nucula obtusa, Nucula oppeliana, Nucula orbicella, Nucula ovata, Nucula paboensis, Nucula pectinata, Nucula pectuncularis, Nucula planimarginata, Nucula prunicola, Nucula pusilla, Nucula rembangensis, Nucula rescuensis, Nucula reticularis, Nucula ripae, Nucula rossiana, Nucula rotunda, Nucula schlosseri, Nucula scissurata, Nucula sedanensis, Nucula semistriata, Nucula shaleri, Nucula simplex, Nucula sinaria, Nucula smithsoni, Nucula solitaria, Nucula speciosa, Nucula stantoni, Nucula stephana, Nucula storrsi, Nucula strigilata, Nucula studeri, Nucula subaequilatera, Nucula subcuneata, Nucula subnuda, Nucula subovalis, Nucula subredempta, Nucula subserradensis, Nucula subtransversa, Nucula sundaica, Nucula tallahalaensis, Nucula taphria, Nucula tatriana, Nucula telleri, Nucula tenuis, Nucula tenuistriata, Nucula tersior, Nucula truncata, Nucula turgens, Nucula variabilis, Nucula vestigia, Nucula vicksburgensis, Nucula waikuraensis, Nucula washingtonensis

Type specimen: USNM 203879

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nucula pilkeyi in the database

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