African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897

Deep-Sea taxon details

Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897

AphiaID

182795 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182795)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Ledella bushae Warén, 1978 accepted as Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Ledellinae J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982

Original name

Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897

Synonymised names

Nuculana (Ledella) A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897 · unaccepted > superseded rank

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Species Ledella aberrata J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1996
Species Ledella acinula (Dall, 1890)
Species Ledella confinis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella despecta (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella ecaudata (Pelseneer, 1903)
Species Ledella foresti (Métivier, 1982)
Species Ledella galatheae Knudsen, 1970
Species Ledella inopinata (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella kermadecensis Knudsen, 1970
Species Ledella knudseni J. D. Taylor & Wiklund, 2017
Species Ledella lusitanensis J. A. Allen & F. J. Hannah, 1989
Species Ledella messanensis (Jeffreys, 1870)
Species Ledella parva A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897
Species Ledella pustulosa (Jeffreys, 1876)
Species Ledella solidula (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella sublevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
Species Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella bushae Warén, 1978 accepted as Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella crassa Knudsen, 1970 accepted as Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella hebes (E. A. Smith, 1885) accepted as Nuculana hebes (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Ledella orstomi (Cosel, 1995) accepted as Yoldiella orstomi Cosel, 1995
Species Ledella tasmanica (Knudsen, 1970) accepted as Bathyspinula tasmanica (Knudsen, 1970) (superseded combination)
Species Ledella turnerae F. R. Bernard, 1989 accepted as Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1897). Revision of the genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the Atlantic coast of the United States. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 3: 51-63., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40360653
page(s): 54, 62 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182795 on 2025-05-08

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182795 on 2025-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-10-06 10:43:15Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-13 06:47:38Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-10-09 17:37:21Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2012-06-20 18:09:29Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2017-10-27 19:29:48Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2019-07-15 00:45:33Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2023-06-18 17:33:03Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1897). Revision of the genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the Atlantic coast of the United States. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 3: 51-63., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40360653
page(s): 54, 62 [details]

additional source Allen, J. A.; Hannah, F. J. (1989). Studies on deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia). The subfamily Ledellinae (Nuculanidae). Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology. 55(2): 123-171., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40541165 [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. [details]

subsequent type designation ICZN. (1985). Opinion 1306. Ledella bushae Warén, 1978 is the type species of Ledella Verrill & Bush, 1897 (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 42 (2):146-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12229049 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Unreviewed

Ledella ultima

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