Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Belongs to Nucula according to L. Ragaini et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Nucula (Gibbonucula), Nucula (Lamellinucula), Nucula (Leionucula), Nucula (Linucula), Nucula (Nucula), Nucula alcocki, Nucula andersoni, Nucula assiniboiensis, Nucula athabaskensis, Nucula brewsterensis, Nucula calcicola, Nucula cancellata, Nucula cancellata, Nucula catalina, Nucula certisinus, Nucula concinna, Nucula cossmanni, Nucula costaeimbricatis, Nucula crenulata, Nucula crepida, Nucula darella, Nucula delphinodonta, Nucula domandaensis, Nucula gabbiana, Nucula greppini, Nucula hanleyi, Nucula hartvigiana, Nucula major, Nucula mancorensis, Nucula margaritifera, Nucula martini, Nucula micheleae, Nucula morundiana, Nucula narica, Nucula nejdensis, Nucula nitidula, Nucula nitidulaformis, Nucula njalindungensis, Nucula observatoria, Nucula orbicella, Nucula paboensis, Nucula pilkeyi, Nucula pisum, Nucula planimarginata, Nucula proxima, Nucula prunicola, Nucula pusilla, Nucula rembangensis, Nucula reticularis, Nucula rossiana, Nucula sedanensis, Nucula semistriata, Nucula shaleri, Nucula sinaria, Nucula stantoni, Nucula studeri, Nucula subrotundata, Nucula subtransversa, Nucula tallahalaensis, Nucula taphria, Nucula tatriana, Nucula tersior, Nucula tumida, Nucula turgens, Nucula ventricosa, Nucula vestigia, Nucula vicksburgensis, Nucula waikuraensis, Nucula washingtonensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder