WoRMS taxon details
Ennucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808)
AphiaID: 140584
AphiaID: 140584
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Nuculida (Order) > Nuculoidea (Superfamily) > Nuculidae (Family) > Ennucula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Ennucula Iredale, 1931 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Arca tenuis Montagu, 1808 (original combination) Ennucula bellotii (A. Adams, 1856) Ennucula inflata (Hancock, 1846) Leionucula bellotii (junior synonym) Leionucula inflata (Hancock, 1846) Leionucula ovatotruncata Scarlato, 1981 Nucula balboana Hertlein & Grant, 1972 Nucula bellotii A. Adams, 1856 Nucula expansa Reeve, 1855 (invalid: junior homonym of Nucula expansa Bronn, 1848) Nucula inflata Hancock, 1846 (invalid: junior homonym of Nucula inflata J. Sowerby, 1827 and N. inflata Wissman & Münster, 1841) Nucula leptodonta Bernard, 1983 Nucula microsperma S. S. Berry, 1947 Nucula quirica Dall, 1916 Nucula subovata Verrill & Bush, 1898 (invalid: junior homonym of Nucula subovata d'Orbigny, 1850) Nucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808) Nucula tenuis typica G. O. Sars, 1878 Nucula tenuis var. lucida Whiteaves, 1887 Nuculana bellotii (A. Adams, 1856) Nuculoma bellotii (A. Adams, 1856) Nuculoma tenuis (Montagu, 1808) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: 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: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] additional source: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] additional source: Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. Deep-Sea Research II 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.08.004 [details] redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] from synonym: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Digdeguash Estuary [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] L'Etang [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Croix [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tongue Shoal [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 5 mm in size [details] Distribution: Labrador to Florida; Greenland; Europe; Alaska to Baja California [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details] Synonymy: Synoym of Nuculoma tenuis (Montagu, 1808) Following genus synonymy of Howson & Picton [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140584 | |||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Ennucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140584 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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