Species Saccella verconis (Tate, 1891)

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• Leda verconis Tate, R. 1891. Descriptions of new species of Australian Mollusca, recent and fossil. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 257-265 [Date published Dec] [264-265, pl. 11, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

Generic Combinations

• Nuculana (Scaeoleda) verconis (Tate, 1891). —
  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 [21]
• Scaeoleda verconis (Tate, 1891). —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [45]
  Dell, R.K. 1955. A synopsis of the Nuculanidae with check lists of the Australian Tertiary and Recent species. Records of the Dominion Museum 2: 123-134 [131]
• Nuculana (Saccella) verconis (Tate, 1891). —
  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.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

In sand, marine, shelly bottom.

General References

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] [38]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [45] (new combination; fig. 20, as Scaeoleda verconis)

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. [40, fig. 39]

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 [21] (new combination; pl. 1, fig. 7; as Nuculana (Scaeoleda) verconis)

Ludbrook, N.H. 1978. Quaternary molluscs of the western part of the Eucla Basin. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 125: 1–286 [37]

Thiele, J. 1930. Die Fauna Südest Australiens. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. Fauna Südwest-Australien 9(8): 580-589 [589]

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] [217]

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