Genus Ledella Verrill & Bush, 1897

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• Junonia Seguenza, G. 1877. Nuculidi Terziarie rinvenute nelle Provincie meridionali d' Italia. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei. Memorie. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali 3 1: 1163-1200 [1175] [junior homonym; of Junonia Huebner, 1819].
• Ledella Verrill, A.E. & Bush, K.J. 1897. Revision of the genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the Atlantic Coast of the United States. American Journal of Science 4 3: 51-63 [54, 62] [replacement name for Junonia Sequenza, 1877].

  Type species:

   Leda bushae Warén, 1978 by subsequent designation (see Opinion 1306. 1985. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 146; and Warén, A. 1978. On the taxonomy of some North Atlantic species referred to Ledella and Yoldiella (Bivalvia), Sarsia 63: 213-219 [213]).
• Comitileda Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [181, 185].

  Type species:

   Leda miliacea Hedley, 1902 by original designation.
• Magaleda 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 species:

   Leda inopinata Smith, 1885 by original designation.
• Amphilata Filatova & Schileyko, 1984 [Tsitologiya, Leningr. 119: 129].
• Prashadia Filatova & Schileyko, 1984 [Tsitologiya, Leningr. 119: 127].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N235]
• Allen, J.A. & Hannah, F.J. 1986. A reclassification of the Recent genera of the subclass Protobranchia (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of Conchology 32: 225-249 [232]
• Maxwell, P.A. 1988. Comments on "A reclassification of the Recent genera of the subclass Protobranchia (Mollusca: Bivalvia)" by J.A. Allen and F.J. Hannah (1986). Journal of Conchology 33: 85-96 [90]
• 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. [93, 98 and on CD]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Allen, J.A. & Hannah, F.J. 1986. A reclassification of the Recent genera of the subclass Protobranchia (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of Conchology 32: 225-249 [232] (presents alternative taxonomic arrangement; includes Megaleda Iredale, 1929 in synonymy)

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. [532]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N235] (presents alternative taxonomic arrangement; includes Megaleda Iredale, 1929 in synonymy)

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