Nuculana minuta
| Nuculana minuta | |
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Scientific 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
- ^ Nuculana minuta World Register of Marine Species. 2024
- ^ 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.