Species Ennucula flindersi (Cotton, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pronucula flindersi Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [225, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10116, 550 m, 120 west of Eucla, Western Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [706].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ennucula flindersi (Cotton, 1930). —
  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]
• Austronucula flindersi (Cotton, 1930). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [32]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ennucula dilecta flindersi (Cotton, 1930). —
  Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [706] (subspecies arrangement)

 

Introduction

Huber (2010) treats Ennucula flindersi (Cotton, 1930) as a probable synonym of Ennucula dilecta (Smith, 1891). However, these two taxa are treated here as separate species given their disparate distributions.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 11 m

 

General References

Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [706] (taxonomy, ecology, distribution)

Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [32, fig. 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. [524]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34, fig. 14] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	23-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
16-Aug-2012		16-Aug-2012	MOVED
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MOVED
23-Oct-2014		09-Aug-2010	MOVED
		02-Aug-2010	MODIFIED