Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Alternative combinations: Leda speluncaria, Nucula speluncaria, Nuculana speluncaria

Belongs to Phestia according to Z.J. Fang 1987

Sister taxa: Phestia basedowi, Phestia corrugata, Phestia darwini, Phestia elongata, Phestia hunanensis, Phestia inflatiformis, Phestia lusabaensis, Phestia nova, Phestia obtusa, Phestia pandoraeformis, Phestia perumbonata, Phestia rugodorsata, Phestia sinuata, Phestia subacuta, Phestia thompsoni, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 11.5