Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combinations: Arca pernula, Leda pernula, Nuculana (Nuculana) pernula
Synonyms: Arca rostrata Bruguiére 1789, Leda buccata Müller 1842, Leda rostrata Bruguiére 1789, Nucula jacksoni Gould 1841, Nuculana buccata Müller 1842, Nuculana jacksoni Gould 1841, Nuculana rostrata Bruguiére 1789
Belongs to Nuculana according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Givens and Kennedy 1976, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hendy et al. 2008, Moore 1983, Richards 1962 and Wood 1850
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 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 gabrielis, Leda glabra, Leda obolella, Leda borsoni, Leda vanuxemi, Leda transversa, Leda caudata, Leda bavarica, Leda leia, Leda trumani, Leda becki, Leda elliptica, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda plana, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda lacryma, Leda calcarensis, Leda semistriata, Leda excavata, Leda wautubbeana, Leda (Spinula), Leda semipolita, Leda catasarca, Leda (Leda), Leda zitteli, Leda parkei, Leda (Lembulus), Leda decorata, Leda coelatoides, Leda renevieri, Leda dijki, Leda scutula, Leda subquadrata, Leda wissmanniana, Leda protexta, Leda whitfieldi, Leda semenoides, Leda cochlearella, Leda praeradiata, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda scalata, Leda opulenta, Leda carolinensis, Leda coelata, Leda radiata, Leda alkiensis, Leda striatella, Leda ingens, Leda reussi, Leda kittensis, Leda vaticani, Leda claviformis, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda ozarkola, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda doris, Leda deffneri, Leda barranca, Leda zelima, Leda minuta, Leda sulcellata, Leda discors, Leda stewardi, Leda minuta, Leda pygmaea, Leda magnopsis, Leda projecta, Leda striatula, Leda subtrigona, Leda nitida, Leda rangei, Leda pistorupes, Leda distincta, Leda crassiparva, Leda magna, Leda lincolnensis, Leda schiavi, Leda houstonia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (23: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario collections), Greenland (4), Ireland (1), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Maine)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 40 collections including 44 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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