Species Ennucula orekta Iredale, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ennucula orekta 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 [237, pl. I, figs 6, 6a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60255, Albany Passage, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia [10°45‘0‘S, 142°37‘1.2‘E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Leionucula orecta (Iredale, 1939). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [36, fig. 20]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

To Torres Strait

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, in sand, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 27 m

 

General References

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. [36, fig. 20]

 

History of changes

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