Species Nucula (Nucula) beachportensis Verco, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nucula beachportensis 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, pl. 27, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.11310, 73 m, off Beachport, South Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ennucula beachportensis (Verco, 1907). —
  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

• Nucula (Ennucula) beachportensis Verco, 1907. —
  Ludbrook, N.H. 1955. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide plains. Part II. Pelecypoda. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 78: 18-87 [19]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, in sand, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 180 m (see Lamprell & Healy 1998)

 

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)

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]

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1913. Additions to the Catalogue of Marine Shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 26(1): 71-87 [86]

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.

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [32, fig. 2]

Ludbrook, N.H. 1955. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide plains. Part II. Pelecypoda. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 78: 18-87 [19]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [270]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [7]

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. 4]

 

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