Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652

Belongs to Nuculana according to P. Jung 1965

Sister taxa: Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelata, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana fossa, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana magna, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana orcutti, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parva, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana praeradiata, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana subquadrata, Nuculana subtrigonalis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana transversa, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Leda gabbi, Leda barranca, Leda stewardi, Leda obolella, Leda projecta, Leda (Leda), Leda cochlearella, Leda (Spinula), Leda radiata, Leda lucida, Leda pygmaea, Leda caudata, Leda semistriata, Leda lincolnensis, Leda elliptica, Leda sulcellata, Leda zelima, Crassoleda crassatelloides

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder