Ennucula aegeensis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculida
Family: Nuculidae
Genus: Ennucula
Species:
E. aegeensis
Binomial name
Ennucula aegeensis
(Forbes, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Nucula aegeensis
  • Nucula convexa
  • Nucula macandrewi
  • Nucula mandraei
  • Nucula m'andrewii

Ennucula aegeensis, commonly known as the Aegean nut clam, is a nut clam present in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Mediterranean.[1]

Distribution

Ennucula aegeensis is present of the coast of Florida, North Carolina, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, and the Mediterranean (Marmara, Aegean, and Levantine Sea).[2] E. aegeensis in the Mediterranean is typically found 80–500 m under the sea, its lower limit is around 1000 m. However, under 500–600 m it is usual replaced by E. corbuloides. E. aegeensis occupies muddy sandy-bottoms.[1][3] E. aegeensis fossils have been found near the islet of Sokastro dating back to the early Calabrian (1.7-1.6 Ma).[4]

Description

Ennucula aegeensis has an obliquely oval, white, shell. That has fine conmarginal striae on the exterior, the interior as radially ribbed structures that appear as fine radial striations. The interior margins are minutely denticulate. They are typically 3 mm in length. They are endobenthic (living within seafloor sediment) and are deposit feeders who consume refractory material.[5][6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ennucula aegeensis (Forbes, 1844)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  2. ↑ Albayrak, Serhat (2011). The Marine Bivalvia (Mollusca) of Turkey (PDF). ISBN 978-975-404-905-3.
  3. ↑ Perna, Rafael La (2003). "The Quaternary deep-sea protobranch fauna from the Mediterranean:: composition, depth-related distribution and changes" (PDF). Bollettino Malacologico (39): 17–34.
  4. ↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  5. ↑ Manousis, Thanasis; Galinou-Mitsoudi, Sofia (2013). New and uncommon Bivalvia Mollusca of Thermaikos Gulf (NW Aegean Sea). Journal of Biological Research (Thesis). Vol. 20. pp. 339–366. ProQuest 1508012806.
  6. ↑ Mikkelsen, Paula M.; Bieler, Rüdiger (2008). Seashells of Southern Florida: Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions, Bivalves. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11606-8. OCLC 78071775.
  7. ↑ Mamouridis, V.; Cartes, J.E.; Parra, S.; Fanelli, E.; Saiz Salinas, J.I. (April 2011). "A temporal analysis on the dynamics of deep-sea macrofauna: Influence of environmental variability off Catalonia coasts (western Mediterranean)". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 58 (4): 323–337. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.01.005.
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