Nuculidae: Nucula pusilla Angas, 1877 (‘tiny nutlet-shell’)
Synonym(s): pusilla Angas, 1877 minuta Tenison-Woods, 1877 micans Angas, 1878 hedleyi Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904 concentrica Cotton, 1930.
Typical shell-length 4.5 mm. Lives subtidally and offshore in sand. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA).
Classification
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Protobranchia
Order: Nuculoida
Superfamily: Nuculoidea
Family: Nuculidae
Genus: Nucula
Localities for Nucula pusilla
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Two Mile Beach
Bicheno: Cod Rock
Blackman Bay (unlocalised)
Blackmans Bay
Cape Barren Island (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Roses Bay
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Clarke Island: Black Point
Conical Harbour
Derwent Estuary (unlocalised)
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Arthur Bay: Long Point
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Watering Beach
Flinders Island: Leeka: foreshore towards Twelve Hour Point
Flinders Island: The Dock
Flinders Island (unlocalised)
Granville Harbour: coast to N
Greens Beach: main beach
Hawley Beach: foreshore towards Point Sorell
Hobart: Sullivans Cove area
Hobart (unlocalised)
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: Ettrick Beach
King Island: Fitzmaurice Bay
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
King Island: Pass River Bay
King Island: Seal Point
King Island: Surprise Bay
King Island (unlocalised)
Low Head: East Beach
Maria Island: Howells Point & Painted Cliffs
Maria Island: Oyster Bay
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
North Bruny Island: Bull Bay
Nubeena (unlocalised)
Nubeena: White Beach
Orford: Spring Beach
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Davey: Whalers Cove
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Southport Lagoon: southern end
Tamar River: George Town: York Cove
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
Triabunna: Plain Place Beach