Species under Nuculana
n= 59
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Nuculana acuta
(Conrad, 1832)
Pointed nutclam Western Atlantic 1
Nuculana anakena
Raines & Huber, 2012
Southeast Pacific
Nuculana arai
Habe, 1958
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana aspecta
(Dall, 1927)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana bellula
(Adams, 1856)
Southwest Pacific
Nuculana bipennis
(Dall, 1927)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana bushiana
(Verrill, 1884)
Western Atlantic 1.5
Nuculana carpenteri
(Dall, 1881)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana caudata
(Donovan, 1801)
Tailed nutclam Western Atlantic
Nuculana cestrota
(Dall, 1889)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana commutata
(Philippi, 1844)
Mediterranean Sea
Nuculana concentrica
(Say, 1824)
Concentric nutclam Western Atlantic 1.8
Nuculana confusa
(Hanley, 1860)
Western Pacific
Nuculana crenulata
(Adams, 1856)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana cuneata
(Sowerby I, 1833)
Eastern Pacific
Nuculana cuspidata
(Gould, 1861)
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana decora
(Adams, 1856)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana fortiana
Esteves, 1984
Western Atlantic
Nuculana gordonis
(Yokoyama, 1920)
Gordon nutclam Northwest Pacific
Nuculana hamata
(Carpenter, 1864)
Hooked nutclam Eastern Pacific
Nuculana hebes
(Smith, 1885)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana husamaru
Nomura, 1940
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana illirica
Carrozza, 1987
Mediterranean Sea
Nuculana inaequisculpta
(Lamy, 1906)
Antarctica Pacific and Antarctic Atlantic 0.5
Nuculana investigator
(Dell, 1952)
Southwest Pacific
Nuculana jamaicensis
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
Jamaica nutclam Western Atlantic
Nuculana karlmartini
Weisbord, 1964
Western Atlantic
Nuculana kawamurai
Habe, 1961
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana larranagai
Klappenbach & Scarabino, 1969
Western Atlantic 0.5
Nuculana leonina
(Dall, 1896)
Canada
Nuculana marella
Weisbord, 1964
Western Atlantic 0.46
Nuculana messanensis
(Sequenza, 1877)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana minuta
(Müller, 1776)
Minute nutclam Arctic, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean
Nuculana navisa
(Dall, 1916)
Ship nutclam Eastern Pacific
Nuculana novaeguineensis
(Smith, 1885)
Western Central Pacific
Nuculana orixa
(Dall, 1927)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana pella
Linnaeus, 1767
Mediterranean Sea
Nuculana pernula
(Müller, 1779)
Northern nutclam Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 1.76
Nuculana pernuloides
(Dunker, 1882)
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana platessa
(Dall, 1890)
Western Atlantic 1.03
Nuculana procumbens
Prashad, 1932
Western Pacific
Nuculana radiata
(Krause, 1885)
Arctic and Northern Pacific
Nuculana recurva
(Conrad, 1831)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana rhytida
(Dall, 1908)
Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Nuculana sadoensis
(Yokoyama, 1926)
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana scalata
Prashad, 1932
Western Pacific
Nuculana sematensis
Suzuki & Isizuka, 1943
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana semen
(Smith, 1885)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana sinensis
Xu, 1984
Western Pacific
Nuculana solida
(Dall, 1881)
Western Atlantic
Nuculana solidifacta
(Dall, 1886)
Western Central Atlantic
Nuculana soyomaruae
Okutani, 1962
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana subaequilatera
(Jeffreys, 1879)
Unequal nutclam Western Atlantic
Nuculana takaoensis
Otsuka, 1936
Northwest Pacific
Nuculana tenuisulcata
(Couthouy, 1838)
Thin nut clam Arctic and Northwest Atlantic
Nuculana verrilliana
(Dall, 1886)
Barbed nutclam Western Atlantic
Nuculana vitrea
(d’Orbigny, 1842)
Western Central Atlantic
Nuculana whitensis
Farinati, 1978
Western Atlantic
Nuculana yokoyamai
Kusoda, 1934
Northwest Pacific
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