Nuculana minuta

Nuculana minuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculanida
Family: Nuculanidae
Genus: Nuculana
Species:
N. minuta
Binomial name
Nuculana minuta
(Fabricius, 1776)

Nuculana minuta, or the Minute nut clam, is a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Nuculanidae.

Its distribution is circum-boreal. It lives in northern parts of the Atlantic both in Europe and North America, as well as in the Northeast Pacific and in subarctic-arctic regions including the White Sea.[1] Along the Atlantic coast of North America, it is found from Labrador to Maine.[2]

References

  1. ^ Nuculana minuta World Register of Marine Species. 2024
  2. ^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 4.


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