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Ennucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808)

140584  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140584)

accepted
Species
Arca tenuis Montagu, 1808 · unaccepted (original combination)
Nucula expansa Reeve, 1855 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Nucula...)  
invalid: junior homonym of Nucula expansa Bronn, 1848
Nucula inflata Hancock, 1846 · unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid; not J. Sowerby, 1827 nor...)  
invalid; not J. Sowerby, 1827 nor Wissman, 1841
marine
(of Arca tenuis Montagu, 1808) Montagu, G. (1808). Supplement to Testacea Britannica with Additional Plates. Woolmer, Exeter. v + 183 pp., pl. 17-30. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61685744
page(s): 56-57, pl. 29 fig. 1 [details] 
Distribution Labrador to Florida; Greenland; Europe; Alaska to Baja California  
Distribution Labrador to Florida; Greenland; Europe; Alaska to Baja California [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Ennucula tenuis (Montagu, 1808). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140584 on 2024-11-22
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original description (of Nucula inflata Hancock, 1846) Hancock A. 1846. A list of shells dredged on the West Coast of Davis's Strait; with notes and descriptions of eight new species. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i>, 18: 323-338, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319632 [details] 

original description (of Arca tenuis Montagu, 1808) Montagu, G. (1808). Supplement to Testacea Britannica with Additional Plates. Woolmer, Exeter. v + 183 pp., pl. 17-30. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61685744
page(s): 56-57, pl. 29 fig. 1 [details] 

original description (of Leionucula ovatotruncata Scarlato, 1980) Volova, G. N. & Scarlato, O. A. (1980). Dvustovorchatye molluski Zaliva Petra Velikogo. <em>Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Dal'nevostochnyi Tsentr, Institut Biologii Moria, Dal'nevostochnyi Gosudarstvennyi Universitet.</em> [details] 

original description (of Nucula bellotii A. Adams, 1856) Adams, A. (1856). Descriptions of thirty four new species of bivalve Mollusca (<i>Leda, Nucula</i>, and <i>Pythina</i>) from the Cumingian collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 24 (1856): 47-53., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860573
page(s): 51. [details] 

original description (of Nucula expansa Reeve, 1855) Reeve, L. A. (1855). Account of the shells collected by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., North of Beechey Island, pp. 392–399, pls. 32–33, In: E. Belcher, <i>The last of the Arctic voyages: being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54: with notes on the natural history.</i> Lovell Reeve, London. 2 volumes. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1360228 [details] 

original description (of Nucula quirica Dall, 1916) Dall, W. H. (1916). Diagnoses of new species of marine bivalve mollusks from the northwest coast of America in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 52 (2183): 393-417., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7765696
page(s): 394 [details] 

original description (of Nucula tenuis var. lucida Whiteaves, 1887) Whiteaves, J. F. (1887). On some marine invertebrata dredged or otherwise collected by Dr. G.M. Dawson, in 1885, in the northern part of the Strait of Georgia, in Discovery Passage, Johnston Stait, and Charlotte and Quatsino Sounds. Proc. R. Soc. Canad., Montreal, 4 (4): 11-137 (117). [details] 

original description (of Nucula tenuis f. typica G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 33 [details] 

original description (of Nucula (Ennucula) balboana Hertlein & U. S. Grant, 1972) Hertlein, L. G.; Grant IV, U. S. (1972). The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California (Paleontology: Pelecypoda). <em>Memoir of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 135-409., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6218766 [details] 

original description (of Nucula (Ennucula) microsperma S. S. Berry, 1947) Berry, S. S. (1947). New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California-III. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 31(127): 256-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10660724 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 11 (1): 43–82 [in English]. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [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] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. <i>Deep-Sea Research II</i> 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at https://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. [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
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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Danish glat nøddemusling [from synonym]  [details]
English Spear nut clamsmooth nutclamSmooth nut clamLittle nut clam  [details]
German Glatte NussmuschelDünnschalige Nussmuschel  [details]
Japanese コグルミガイ  [details]
Russian Нукула обычная  [details]
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