Species Ledella inopinata (Smith, 1885)

• Leda inopinata 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 [236, pl. 19, fig. 9] [not Leda inopinata Cossmann, 1908].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Challenger st. 164, off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 950 fathoms.

 

Generic Combinations

• Magaleda inopinata (Smith, 1885). —
  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]
• Nuculana (Ledella) inopinata (Smith, 1885). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [38, fig. 28]
• Ledella inopinata (Smith, 1885). —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Also Antarctica, Ainbas 56.3°S, 50.8°W, see Huber (2010)

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, in mud, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Green mud, to 522 m (see Lamprell & Healy 1998)

 

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. [532]

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]

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

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [38, fig. 28]

 

History of changes

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