Species Nucula (Lamellinucula) torresi Smith, 1885
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 torresi 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 [227, pl. 18, figs 9, 9a].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1887.2.9.2908/1, 247 m, east of Cape York, Queensland.Subsequent designation 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] [687]. - Pronucula voorwindei Bergmans, W. 1969. Description of a new Pronucula (Bivalvia, Nuculidae) from New South Wales and additional notes on some other species of the same genus. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 12: 61-63 [61, text figs 1 a-c].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.67030, off Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, 24 fathoms [32°42‘0‘S, 152°4‘58.8‘E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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] [687]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indonesia (see Huber 2010)
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, marine, sand bottom.
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] [685] (taxonomy, ecology, distribution)
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [32, fig. 3]
History of changes
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| 16-Aug-2012 | 16-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 15-Aug-2012 | 15-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 23-Oct-2014 | 09-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 23-Oct-2014 | 04-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 03-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED |