Genus Ennucula Iredale, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ennucula Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [202].

  Type species:

   Nucula obliqua Lamarck, 1819 by original designation.
• Nuculoma Cossmann, M. 1907. Paléontologie. pp. 78-138 & 141-147 in Thiéry, P. & Cossmann, M. Note sur le Callovien de la Haute-Marne et spécialement sur un gisement situé dans la commune de Bricon. Bulletin de la Société d'Agriculture, lettres, sciences et arts du département de la Haute-Saône 1907: 69-147, 3 pls [Congrès de l’Association Franc-Comtoise; pp. 73-77, Stratigraphie by P. Thiéry; pp. 78-138 & 141-147 Paléontologie by M. Cossmann; pp. 139-140, Brachiopodes by M.H. Douvillé] [124].
• Nuculopsis Woodring, W.P. 1925. Miocene Mollusca from Bowden Jamaica, pelecypods and scaphopods. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 366: 1-564, pl. 1-40 [Date published May 20] [14] [junior homonym of Nuculopsis Girty, 1911, and Nuculopsis Rollier, 1912; see Lissanucula; Nuculopsis Woodring, 1925 not listed by Huber 2010].

  Type species:

   Nucula (Nuculopsis) hilli Woodring, 1925 by original designation.
• Leionucula Quenstedt, W. 1930. Die Anpassung and die grabende in der Geschichte der Solenomyiden und Nuculaceen. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 22: 1-119 [10].

  Type species:

   Nucula albensis d'Orbigny, 1844 by original designation.
• Lionucula Thiele, J. 1934. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Zweiter Band, Teil 3 (Scaphopoda; Bivaliva; Cephalopoda) pp. 779-1022. [786] [emendation; unnec. emend.].

 

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] [N231] (Leionucula has been removed as the valid name for the group)
• 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 [89] (suggests that Ennucula be used as full genus status until more is known about the closely similar and potential senior name Leionucula Woodring, 1925)
• 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. [85]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Bergmans, W. 1991. Mollusca Bivalvia : Archibenthal Nuculidae off New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 7: 29-40 [38] (synonymises Leionucula and Ennucula, but does not deal with the problem of the type species of Leionucula (see Maxwell 1988))

Cotton, B.C. 1947. Some Tertiary Fossil Molluscs from the Adelaidean Stage (Pliocene) of South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8(4): 653-670 [Date published Dec. 10] [655]

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]

Dell, R.K. 1956. The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin 18: 1-235, pls 1-25 [11]

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. [523]

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [235]

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 [7]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34] (presents an alternative taxonomic arrangement and uses the questionable available name Leionucula, and places Ennucula in synonymy)

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 [89] (presents an alternative taxonomic arrangement; too little is known about the type species of Leionucula (L. albensis (Orbigny, 1844) by original designation) and other species of Leionucula to make any meaningful comparison with other nuculids. Thus, Ennucula has been retained as the valid name until further information is available for the taxon Leionucula)

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] [N231] (synonomy; Leionucula has been removed as the valid name for the group)

 

History of changes

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