Nuculana minuta explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140577#distributions Nuculana minuta
  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.