Species Ennucula cumingi (Hinds, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nucula cumingi Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of a new species of Nucula from the collections of Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., and Hugh Cumming ESQ. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1843: 97-102 [97].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Nucula loringi Adams, S. & Angas, G.F. 1863. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [427].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34]

 

Generic Combinations

• Ennucula cumingi (Hinds, 1843). —
  Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [524]
• Leionucula cumingi (Hinds, 1843). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34, fig. 16]
• Ennucula loringi (Adams & Angas, 1864). —
  Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [236]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, in sand, marine, mud bottom–marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 50 metres (see Lamprell & Healy 1998); 20-120 m (see Bernard, Cai & Moront 1993)

 

General References

Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [17] (secondary source; as Nucula cumingii Hinds, 1843)

Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [264, pl. 16, figs 7-9]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [88, text fig. 524]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34, fig. 70] (distribution, synonomy, as Leionucula cumingi (Hinds, 1843))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MOVED
23-Oct-2014		09-Aug-2010	MOVED
		02-Aug-2010	MODIFIED