World Register of Deep-Sea species - Nuculana vestita (Locard, 1898)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Nuculana vestita (Locard, 1898)

AphiaID

428737 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:428737)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Nuculana Link, 1807

Original name

Leda vestita Locard, 1898

Synonymised names

Leda macella Barnard, 1963 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Leda vestita Locard, 1898 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Leda vestita Locard, 1898) Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 [1897], p. 1-516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1-515, pl. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10994100
page(s): vol. 2 p. 340-341, pl. 14 fig. 12-18; note: ex P. Fischer ms. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nuculana vestita (Locard, 1898). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428737 on 2026-09-21

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Nuculana vestita (Locard, 1898). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428737 on 2026-09-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-10-30 09:18:16Z

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2010-09-23 10:44:16Z

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Huber, Markus

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original description (of Leda macella Barnard, 1963) Barnard K.H. (1963). Deep sea Mollusca from west of Cape Point, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum. 46(17): 407-452., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40867247 [details]

original description (of Leda vestita Locard, 1898) Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 [1897], p. 1-516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1-515, pl. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10994100
page(s): vol. 2 p. 340-341, pl. 14 fig. 12-18; note: ex P. Fischer ms. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Knudsen J. (1970) The systematics and biology of abyssal and hadal Bivalvia. Galathea Reports 11 : 1-241, pls 1-20., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20160808193459/http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/galathea/Galathea_p3.html
page(s): 28-30 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Leda macella Barnard, 1963)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Leda vestita Locard, 1898)