Species Ennucula obliqua (Lamarck, 1819)
Oblique Nut Shell, Subdilecta Nut Shell (for Ennucula subdilecta)
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
August 2002 - Peter U. Middelfart, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Nucula obliqua Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [59].
Type data:
Status unknown, South Tasmania. - Nucula simplex Adams, A. 1856. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of bivalve Mollusca (Leda, Nucula, and Pythina), from the Cumingian Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1856(xxiv): 47-53 [52] [junior homonym of Nucula simplex Deshayes, 1842].
- Nucula antipodum Hanley, S. 1860. Monograph of the family Nuculidae. In, Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Concholiorum. London : Sowerby Vol. 3 1-331, pls 1-291. [159, pl. 230, fig. 155].
- Nucula consobrina 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].
- Nucula tenisoni Pritchard, G.B. 1896. A revision of the fossil fauna of the Table Cape Beds, Tasmania, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria VII: 74-150 [Date published April] [128].
Type data:
Status unknown. - Nucula obliqua subdilecta Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [158].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.32039, 40 ml south of Cape Wiles, South Australia, Australia [35°39‘0‘S, 136°49‘58.8‘E]. - Ennucula duritas Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [201].
Type data:
Lectotype AM C. 47082, Sydney, Port Jackson, off Goat Island, New South Wales, Australia [33°51‘18‘S, 151°11‘42‘E].Subsequent designation references:
McMichael, D.F. & Vooorwinde, J. 1966. Illustrations of unfigured New South Wales marine molluscs, Part 1. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 10: 13-20, pls 12, 13 [15, pl. 2, figs 5-7].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34]
Generic Combinations
- Leionucula obliqua (Lamarck, 1819). —
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [270] - Ennucula obliqua (Lamarck, 1819). —
Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [4] - Ennucula subdilecta (Iredale, 1929). —
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] [33]
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Ennucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856) [= Nucula strangei A. Adams, 1856; Leionucula strangei (A. Adams, 1856)]. —
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. (Ennucula strangei has been considered a synonym by some authors, but this New Zealand species is treated as distinct by Huber (2010) and is, thus, here removed from synonymy)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, in sandy mud, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
To 165 m
General References
Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits etc. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 912-935 [932] (as Nucula consobrina)
Bergmans, W. 1991. Mollusca Bivalvia : Archibenthal Nuculidae off New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 7: 29-40 [36] (not treated as synonym of Ennucula obliqua, and mentioned the need to look at the type)
Chapman, F. & Gabriel, C.J. 1914. Descriptions of New and Rare fossils obtained by Deep Boring in the Mallee. ii. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria XXVI: 301-330, 5 pl. [301]
Finlay, H.J. 1927. New specific names for Austral Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 488-533 [522] (as Nucula simplex)
Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [4]
Harris, G.F. 1897. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. London : British Museum of Natural History Part 1 407 pp., 8 pls. [347] (as Nucula tenisoni)
Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [292]
Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [263] (as Nucula simplex, pl. 16, figs 4-6; and N. consobrina, pl. 16, figs 1-3)
Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M3] (as Nucula obliqua and N. consobrina)
Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [483] (as Nucula simplex)
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 (as E. obliqua, E. duritas and E. consobrina)
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34] (distribution, synonymy)
Macpherson, J.H. 1966. Port Phillip Survey 1957–1963. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 27: 201–288 [228]
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [270, fig. 307]
May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 1, fig. 5]
McMichael, D.F. & Vooorwinde, J. 1966. Illustrations of unfigured New South Wales marine molluscs, Part 1. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 10: 13-20, pls 12, 13 [15, pl. 2, figs 5-7] (as Ennucula duritas)
Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [238]
Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [225]
Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [435]
Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 213-230 [Date published 9 Dec] [216]
Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 1-161 [243] (as Nucula simplex and N. consobrina)
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [247, fig. 5] (Subdilecta Nut Shell)
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [270] (Oblique Nut Shell)
History of changes
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| 23-Oct-2014 | 09-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
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